aircraft fuel
1aircraft fuel system — That part of the fuel system whose components are located prior to the entry of the fuel into the engine. It consists of fuel tanks, plumbing, fuel transfer pumps, and low pressure or booster pumps. It also includes the area from where the engine …
2jet-aircraft fuel — reaktyviniai degalai statusas T sritis chemija apibrėžtis Naftos distiliavimo produktai, naudojami reaktyvinėms sistemoms. atitikmenys: angl. jet fuel; jet propellant; jet aircraft fuel; jet engine fuel; jet propulsion fuel rus. реактивное… …
3Fuel dumping — of an Airbus A340 600 above the Atlantic Ocean near Nova Scotia …
4Fuel fraction — An aircraft s fuel fraction, fuel weight fraction, [cite book | last = Brandt | first = Steven | title = Introduction to Aeronautics: a Design Perspective | publisher = AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics Ast | pages = p. 359 | year = 2004 |… …
5fuel — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ clean, smokeless (BrE), unleaded ▪ fossil, nuclear ▪ diesel, hydrogen ▪ …
6fuel boost pump — An auxiliary fuel pump used in an aircraft fuel system to provide fuel at the required pressure to the carburetor or to the fuel metering unit of a fuel injection system. The pump also is meant to purge the fuel lines of any vapors, to prime the… …
7Fuel starvation — and fuel exhaustion (sometimes referred to as fuel depletion) are problems that can affect internal combustion engines fuelled by either diesel, kerosene, petroleum or any other combustible liquid or gas. If no fuel is available for an engine to… …
8Aircraft diesel engine — Thielert Centurion aircraft diesel engine. The aircraft diesel engine or aero diesel has not been widely used as an aircraft engine. Diesel engines were used in airships and were tried in aircraft in the late 1920s …
9Aircraft engine controls — provide a means for the pilot to control and monitor the operation of the aircraft s powerplant. This article describes controls used with a basic internal combustion engine driving a propeller. Some optional or more advanced configurations are… …
10Fuel System Icing Inhibitor — (FSII) is an additive to aviation fuels that prevents the formation of ice in fuel lines. FSII is sometimes referred to by the registered, genericized trademark Prist®. Jet fuel can contain a small amount of dissolved water that does not appear… …
