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Gas Turbine

August 31, 2020 2:20 am Published by

Gas-turbine engine, any internal-combustion engine employing a gas as the working fluid used to turn a turbine. The term also is conventionally used... View Article

Maintenance Inspection and Repair

August 31, 2020 12:03 am Published by

The maintenance support provided by aerospace-industry firms is applied primarily to corporate, commercial, and military aircraft. Light-plane maintenance is generally handled... View Article

Strength of Materials

August 24, 2020 3:51 am Published by

Strength of materials, Engineering discipline concerned with the ability of a material to resist mechanical forces when in use. A material’s strength in a given... View Article

Reciprocating Engine

August 24, 2020 3:34 am Published by

The study of the powerplant section of a light aircraft enumerating it’s parts, functions and operations.

Statistics and Probability

August 9, 2020 10:48 pm Published by

Statistics, the science of collecting, analyzing, presenting, and interpreting data. Governmental needs for census data as well as information about a variety of... View Article

Thermodynamics

Thermodynamics

August 3, 2020 11:04 pm Published by

Thermodynamics, science of the relationship between heat, work, temperature, and energy. In broad terms, thermodynamics deals with the transfer of energy from one place... View Article

Engineering Economics

August 3, 2020 9:59 pm Published by

Engineering economics quantifies the benefits and costs associating with engineering projects to determine if they save enough money to warrant... View Article

Engineering Mechanics I (STATICS)

July 20, 2020 12:26 am Published by

Statics, in physics, the subdivision of mechanics that is concerned with the forces that act on bodies at rest under equilibrium conditions. Its foundations were... View Article

Aircraft Systems

July 20, 2020 12:16 am Published by

Aircraft are complex products comprised of many subsystems which must meet demanding customer and operational lifecycle value requirements. The subject... View Article

Physics

July 13, 2020 2:13 am Published by

Physics, science that deals with the structure of matter and the interactions between the fundamental constituents of the observable universe. In the broadest sense, physics... View Article