Monday, July 1, 2013

Devenition and Abreviation Aeronautical Telecommunication (Alphabet B)

Balloon means a lighter-than-air aircraft that is not engine driven, and that sustains flight through the use of either gas buoyancy or an airborne heater.

Becquerel (Bq). The activity of a radionuclide having one spontaneous nuclear transition per second.

Bare Earth. Surface of the Earth including bodies of water and permanent ice and snow, and excluding vegetation and man-made objects.

By-pass ratio. The ratio of the air mass flow through the by-pass ducts of a gas turbine engine to the air mass flow through the combustion chambers calculated at maximum thrust when the engine is stationary in an international standard atmosphere at sea level.

Bit error rate (BER). The number of bit errors in a sample divided by the total number of bits in the sample, generally averaged over many such samples.

Brake horsepower means the power delivered at the propeller shaft (main drive or main output) of an aircraft engine.

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