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A device that reduces the risk of midair collision by providing advisories to the flight crew. It is known in the United States as a Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS), and operates independently of the ground-based air-traffic…

An instrument that indicates the bearing, or angle of the direction in which an aircraft is pointing in the horizontal plane. A compass may indicate magnetic heading or bearing, bearing referenced to a radio signal source, or bearing with respect to…

A coordinated group of instruments that provides the flight crew with information about the aircraft and its subsystems. Together with the controls, aircraft instruments form the human–machine interfaces that enable the flight crew to operate the…

A ground mapping system that uses analog radar equipment to provide surveillance of aircraft and other surface vehicles on an airport surface. It is used by air-traffic controllers in airport control towers to monitor and control the movement of…

A device that computes and displays speed of an aircraft relative to the air mass in which the aircraft is flying. Three common types are the indicated airspeed meter, true airspeed indicator, and Machmeter.The commonest type is the indicated…

An order of extremely elongate, limbless fossil amphibians in the subclass Lepospondyli from Permo-Carboniferous rocks of North America and Europe. The order Aistopoda (also spelled Aïstopoda) consists of extremely elongate, limbless fossil…

A book that contains astronomical or meteorological data arranged according to days, weeks, and months of a given year and may also include diverse information of a nonastronomical character. This article is restricted to astronomical and…

Any device which measures the height of an aircraft. The two chief types are the pressure altimeter, which measures the aircraft's distance above sea level, and the radar altimeter, which measures distance above the ground. Pressure Altimeter A…

Most commonly, a generic name for all fossil resins, although it has been restricted by some to refer only to succinite, the mineralogical species of fossil resin that includes most of the Baltic Coast deposits. Resins generally are complex mixtures…

An extinct subclass of Cephalopoda (phylum Mollusca). Besides the Ammonoidea (chambered ammonoids), the other subclasses of Cephalopoda are Nautiloidea (chambered nautiloids) and Coleoidea (squid, cuttlefish, octopus, and extinct belemnites), both…