Aircraft Maintenance

Turnbuckles A turnbuckle assembly is a mechanical screw device consisting of two threaded terminals and a threaded barrel. Turnbuckles are...

  How to Remove Damage screw ❗ ️ 1.Penetrating Fluids, The first line of offense in removing  seized fasteners —before you damage them compl...

  Convection and Impingement Cooling/Strut Insert Design The strut insert design has a mid chord section that is convection-cooled through h...

  reaction turbine The axial-flow reaction turbine is the most widely used turbine. In a reaction turbine, both the nozzles and blades act a...

 Compressor Stall There are three distinct stall phenomena. Rotating stall and individual blade stall are aerodynamic phenomena. Stall flutt...

  Compressor Surge Compressor surge is a phenomenon of considerable interest; yet it is not fully understood. It is a form of unstable opera...

  Blade and Cascade Nomenclature Since airfoils are employed in accelerating and diffusing the air in a compressor, much of the theory and r...

  Impeller Fabrication Centrifugal-compressor impellers are either shrouded or unshrouded. Open, shrouded impellers that are mainly used in ...

  Radial-InflowTurbine The radial-inflow turbine, or inward-flow radial turbine, has been in use for many years.  Basically a centrifugal co...

  Can-annular and annular   In aircraft applications where the frontal area is important, either can-annular or annular designs are used to ...

  Combustors All gas turbine combustors perform the same function: they increase the temperature of the high-pressure gas. The gas turbine c...

  Regenerators Heavy-duty regenerators are designed for applications in large gas turbines in the 1–50 MW range.  The use of regenerators in...

  Centrifugal flow compressors   Centrifugal compressors are used in small gas turbines and are the driven units in most gas turbine compres...

  The danger of Bird strike A bird strike usually occurs when a moving airplane collides with a bird. The bird can hit any part of an airpla...

WHAT IS EWIS ALL ABOUT ? Electrical Wiring InterConnection System (EWIS) It is any wire, wiring device or termination device installed in an...

Nozzle Guide Vanes in Gas Turbine Engines Nozzle guide vanes or NGV are of an aerofoil shape with the passage between adjacent vanes forming...

  Micro-Turbines Micro-turbines usually refers to units of less than 350 kW. These units are usually powered by either diesel fuel or natura...

  Equipment for Removal of Particulates and Liquids from Fuel Gas Systems Clean-up equipment must address both solids andliquids removal pr...

  Transpiration Cooling Design   This design has a strut-supported porous shell. The shell attached to the strut is of wire from a porous ma...