pilot jet
1pilot jet — pilot burner, pilot jet or pilot light noun A small gas burner kept alight to light another (see also ↑pilot lamp below) • • • Main Entry: ↑pilot …
2pilot jet — A jet in the idling circuit of a fixed jet carburetor which measures and admits fuel …
3Jet Pilot — Thoroughbred racehorse infobox horsename = Jet Pilot caption = sire = Blenheim II grandsire = Blandford dam = Black Wave damsire = Sir Gallahad III sex = Stallion foaled = 1944 country = United States colour = Chestnut breeder = Arthur B. Hancock …
4pilot burner — noun small auxiliary gas burner that provides a flame to ignite a larger gas burner • Syn: ↑pilot light, ↑pilot • Hypernyms: ↑gas burner, ↑gas jet * * * noun : a small burner kept lighted to rekindle the principal burner (as in a flash boiler) *… …
5jet — jet1 /jet/, n., v., jetted, jetting, adj. n. 1. a stream of a liquid, gas, or small solid particles forcefully shooting forth from a nozzle, orifice, etc. 2. something that issues in such a stream, as water or gas. 3. a spout or nozzle for… …
6jet — [1] A small precision made hole. Often a brass fitting placed inside one of the passages of a carburetor to control the flow of gasoline, air, or air/fuel mixture. [2] The nozzle containing such a hole. Also see air correction jet air jet… …
7Jet stream — Jet streams are fast flowing, relatively narrow air currents found at the tropopause, the transition between the troposphere (where temperature decreases with height) and the stratosphere (where temperature increases with height), [United States… …
8Jet blast — is the phenomenon of rapid air movement produced by the jet engines of aircraft, particularly on or before takeoff.A large jet engined aircraft can produce winds of up to 100 mph (160 km/h) up to 200 feet (60 m) behind it at 40% maximum rated… …
9jet pilot — jet pilot, a person who operates a jet plane …
10Jet upset — is a catastrophic condition in high altitude jet aircraft operations that results in the loss of control of the aircraft and many times in the loss of the aircraft itself.OverviewThe condition first gained notoriety in the late 1960s with the… …
