Aviation dictionary. 2014.
float — i. The horizontal distance traveled by an aircraft from the moment of a flare for landing to the actual touchdown. ii. A buoyant structure or component fitted to an aircraft to enable it to be supported in water or to stabilize it in water. See… … Aviation dictionary
Carburetor — Bendix Technico (Stromberg) 1 barrel downdraft carburetor model BXUV 3, with nomenclature A carburetor (American spelling), carburettor, or carburetter (Commonwealth spelling) is a device that blends air and fuel for an internal combustion engine … Wikipedia
carburetor — A device for continuously supplying the optimum fuel air mixture to the cylinders of a reciprocating engine. There are many forms of carburetors, such as those with choke tubes and the induction type. The most common type contains a float and a… … Aviation dictionary
SU carburetor — SU carburettors (named for Skinners Union, the company that produced them) were a brand of carburettor usually of the sidedraught type but downdraught variants were used on some pre war cars. They were widely used in British (Austin, Morris,… … Wikipedia
HIF carburetor — type of SU carburetor with a horizontal integral float chamber … Dictionary of automotive terms
Pressure carburetor — A pressure carburetor is a type of fuel metering system for piston aircraft engines manufactured by the Bendix Corporation starting in the 1940s. It is recognized as an early type of mechanical fuel injection and was developed to prevent fuel… … Wikipedia
center-hung float — This type of carburetor float pivots on an axis that s parallel with the vehicle axles. It s a better float design than a side hung float during high speed cornering because the float isn t affected by centrifugal force, so it won t pull the… … Dictionary of automotive terms
Water-fuelled car — A water fuelled car is an automobile that is claimed to use water as its fuel or produces fuel from water onboard, with no other energy input. Water fuelled cars have been mentioned in newspapers, popular science magazines, local news coverage,… … Wikipedia
Leonard S. Hobbs — Leonard S. (Luke) Hobbs (1896 in Carbon County, Wyoming ndash; 1977) was an aeronautical engineer who started in 1920 with the Army Air Service at McCook Field in Dayton, Ohio and later worked for Stromberg Motor Devices Corporation. He developed … Wikipedia
Daimler Reitwagen — A Reitwagen replica at the Mercedes Benz Museum Manufacturer Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach Also called Einspur single track Fahrzeug mit gas bezw. Petroleum Kraftmasch … Wikipedia
