Aircraft Maintenance

  What Are Composite Materials? A composite material is a combination of two materials with different  physical and  chemical properties. Wh...

Pitot-static system and instruments   Impact Pressure Chamber and Lines The pitot tube is utilized to measure the total combined pressures...

 Turboprop Engine Concept   The turboprop engine is a variant of a jet engine that has been optimized to drive a propeller. Turboprop equi...

 Digital fundamentals Logic gates   Digital fundamentals we introduce the basic building blocks of the digital logic systems found in mode...

  DC generators A simple DC motor consists of a very similar arrangement to that of the DC generator that we met earlier. magnetic field. Al...

AC torque synchro The AC torque synchro also consists of a transmitter and receiver. These are similar in form; stator and rotor  windings. ...

  Practical aircraft generating  systems Generators are a primary source of power in an aircraft and can either produce direct or alternat...

  Inverters Inverters are used to convert direct current into alternating current. The input is typically from the battery; the output can...

  Neutron Radiography Neutron radiography is a nondestructive imaging technique that is capable of visualizing the internal characteristics ...

  Strain transducers Strain is defined as the deformation of a material caused by the action of stress . Defi ned as force per unit area, ...

  A simple AC generator Being able to generate a voltage by moving a conductor through a magnetic field is extremely useful as it provides u...

  Battery locations An aircraft is fitted with one or two main batteries depending on its size and role. The battery is located as close as ...

Bourdon tube The Bourdon tube was invented by Eugène Bourdon (1808–84), a French watchmaker and engineer. The pressure-sensing element is a ...

  Temperature transducers Aircraft use a variety of temperature transducers, or  sensing devices, ranging from the simple bi-metallic  strip...

  Micro-switches These are used to sense if a device has moved or has reached its limit of travel, e.g. flap drive or undercarriage mechanis...

  AC motors AC motors offer signifi cant advantages over their DC counterparts. AC motors can, in most cases, duplicate the operation of DC ...