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Aviation Maintenance

100-hour inspection

Absolute humidity

Absolute Pressure Gauge – Aircraft Gauge

Absolute temperature

Acceleration due to gravity

Addition

Advisory Circulars (AC)

Aircraft Classification

Aircraft Maintenance Planning Data (MPD)

Aircraft Specifications

Aircraft Tire Undercutting

Airworthiness directive (AD)

Airworthy

Alclad aluminum

Allowance

Alodizing

Alteration

Alternating current

Aluminum Oxide

Ampere

Annealing

Annual inspection

Anodizing

Apparent power

Archimedes?principle

Area

Arm

Armature

Assembly drawing

Atom

Ballast

Base

Baseline Zonal Inspection (BZI)

Basic empty weight

Binary number system

Bird Strike – Significant

Block diagrams

Borescope

Boyle's law

Break lines

British thermal unit (Btu)

Buoyancy

Buttock line (BL)

Calorie

Capacitance (C)

Capacitive reactance (Xc)

Capacitor

Case hardening

Category of Special Airworthiness Certificates

Certification Office

Charles' Law

Chemical energy

Circular magnetization

Classification of Airworthiness Certificates

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)

Compass Rose – Aircraft Compass Swing

Compression ratio

Conduction

Conductor

Continue-in-Service Condition

Continued Airworthiness

Convection

Corrosion

Coulomb

Countersink

Critical Characteristic.

Current

Dalton's Law

Debonding

Decibels

Degradation

Delamination

Denominator

Detail drawing

Detailed inspection

Detailed Inspection (DET)

Dew point

Dial indicator

Die

Differential Pressure Gauge – Aircraft Gauge

Diluter Demand Aviation Oxygen Systems

Direct current (DC)

Discontinuity

Dissimilar metal corrosion

Doping

Dual-Use Product or Part

Eddy current inspection

Electrical energy

Electromotive force (EMF)

Electrostatic field

Empty weight

Empty-weight center of gravity

Empty-weight center of gravity range

Energy

Exception

Exemption

Exploded view drawing

Extension lines

FAA Form 337

Fatigue Critical Structure 14 CFR 26.41

Ferrous metals

Flight Safety Critical Aircraft Part (FSCAP)

Force

Frequency

Fretting corrosion

Friction

Fuel grade

Fuse

Fuselage stations (FS)

General Visual (Surveillance) Inspection (GVI)

Heat

Heavy Maintenance

Henry

Hermaphrodite caliper

Hidden lines

Humidity

Hydrometer

Inductance

Inductive reactance

Inductor

Inside calipers

Installation drawing

Insulator

Intergranular corrosion

Isometric drawings

Joule

Kinetic energy

Kirchhoff?s Law (voltage)

Lateral stability

Lever

Light-Sport Category

Light-Sport Eligible Kit

Line Maintenance

Load cell

Longitudinal magnetization

Longitudinal stability

Magnetic particle inspection

Maintenance – Definition – FAA – EASA

Maintenance Review Board Report

Maintenance Significant Item (MSI)

Maintenance Steering Group-3 (MSG-3)

Major alteration

Major repairs

Malfunction or Defect Report

Malleability

Manufacturer

Manufacturer's Maintenance Manual – AMM

Matter

Maximum zero fuel weight

Mechanical advantage

Mechanical energy

METO horsepower

Military Surplus Product or Part.

Molecule

MS flareless fittings

Mule – Hydraulic Ground Power Unit

Nomogram

Normalizing

Nuclear energy

Oblique view

Ohm

Ohmmeter

Ohm?s Law

One-hundred-hour inspection

Operating center of gravity range

Orthographic projection

Outside calipers

Parallel circuit

Pascal's Law

Permeability

Perspective view

Phantom line

Pictorial drawing

Pitch

Plumb bob

Positive number

Potential difference

Potential energy

Potentiometer

Pressure

Pressure Demand Aviation Oxygen Systems

Previously Manufactured Aircraft.

Progressive inspection

Proportion

Quenching

Radiant energy

Radiation

Radiographic inspection

Reamers

Rectifier

Repair

Repair station

Resistance

Resonance

Retentivity

Rheostat

Rigging

Routine inspection

Schematic diagram

Sea level pressure

Sectional view

Semiconductor

Series circuit

Series-parallel DC circuits

Sine wave

Sketch

Slide caliper

Solenoid

Specific gravity

Specific heat

Speed of sound

Spirit level

Standard empty weight

Standard Parts – Aviation

Strain

Stress corrosion

Substantiating Data

Supplemental Type Certificates (STC)

Surface corrosion

Swaged Fittings

Tap

Tare weight

Tempering

Thermal expansion

Tolerance

Transformer

Transistor

True power

Two-Place Ultralight Training Vehicle.

Type Certificate Data Sheet (TCDS)

Ultralight-like Vehicle

Ultralight Vehicle

Ultrasonic inspection

Vapor pressure

Vital Point

Volt

Voltmeter

Volume

Waterline (WL)

Watt

Weighing points

Weight

Wiring diagrams

Work

Zero fuel weight

Zone numbers