ASAP Aerospace Aviation 360 Blog

Electrical wiring is applicable in various sectors and industries outside of the supply chain sphere. From the home and office to schools and government buildings, electrical wiring is a necessary part of any workforce as it is the necessary tool for allowing the power and electricity to fuel the modern age we live in. Electrical wiring, however, is not just the wire itself, but consists of other necessary accessories such as modular plugs, fuse holders, circuit breakers, and others. These small yet independent accessories play a large role in aiding electrical wiring systems. For more information on these accessorial components, read on below.

Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) are the boards located inside of your computer. Made up of fiberglass, composite epoxy and other materials, the PCB acts as a wiring area for the inner workings socket components. In simpler terms, the PCB is the area where your electronic device can use conductive tracks, pads and other features to connect its inner electrical components.They are used in computers, as well as in cell phones, medical technology,  and other electrical devices. There are many type of PCBs, several of which consist of a single layer, but there are many different types, some of which have more sophisticated hardware like graphics cards or motherboards attached to them. Below you can read about the many available types of PCBS in the market.

Aircraft structures have changed drastically over time. If you looked at a Wright Flyer side by side with an SR-71 Blackbird, you’d be hard-pressed to find a single structural similarity. Incredible achievements have been made in aviation since the dawn of the 20th century. This blog will take a look at the history and evolution of aircraft structures.

Some customers of ASAP have asked if lubricants are necessary for connector processing parts. While they are not always essential, some connector sets do require them because they demand a much higher insertion and withdrawal force. With an increased insertion/withdrawal force, there is more unlikelihood that the pieces can get unmated. With a lubricant, you can reduce the coefficient and friction that comes with trying to un-mate connector parts. Some other advantages of using lubricant are that you can use it to seal plating pores and reduce contact wear.

Fuel contamination is a potentially detrimental problem. Not only can it force your aircraft to stay grounded for an extended period of time, it can also take a huge bite out of your wallet. Microorganisms called microbes are the most common culprit in cases of fuel contamination. They feed on the hydrocarbons present in aircraft fuel storage tanks and grow in the water that accumulates. If these microbes are not attended to quickly, they will multiply quickly and create operational problems such as blocked pipes, valves, filters, and other fuel systems. Here are 5 indications of fuel contamination to beware of.

Aircraft maintenance is of the utmost importance to ensure the safety of the aircraft being used. Thus, an integral part of aircraft maintenance are the tools and equipment used to help maintain and support the aircraft. Aircraft tooling and equipment include maintenance access stands and platforms, tow bars, jacks, lifting equipment and engine tooling. In this blog, we will learn about the functions of aircraft tooling and equipment, and why they are essential to aircraft maintenance.

Safety is the highest concern in the aviation industry, with every rule, law, and procedure motivated by the desire to increase protections for the passengers and crew of every flight. Given the inherent risks of flight, adherence to these standards must be unrelenting and absolute. 

Modern aircraft are made of numerous metal components, and those components obviously need to be held together. The body panels must be attached to the skeleton, the wings to the fuselage connector, and so on. There are several different methods for holding metal parts together, such as riveting, bolting, brazing, and welding. The purpose of all of these processes is to produce a union that is as strong as the parts that are joined.

Fiber optic cables are fundamentally similar to electrical cables but transmit light rather than electricity. Between their unique construction and methods of transmitting information, they have numerous advantages over conventional copper cable. First, optic fiber cables have much greater bandwidth than copper cables. Copper was originally designed for voice transmission, and thus has a limited bandwidth. Fiber optic cables, on the other hand, were created with modern information technology in mind, and can carry more data than copper cables for the same diameter of cable. Within optic fiber cable families, single-mode fiber delivers twice the throughput of multimode fiber.

Bearings are, by definition, parts of a machine that bear friction between a rotating part and its housing. Ball bearings are the most common type of bearing, and as their name implies, use bearings to maintain the separation between the inner races. Ball bearings are most often used between cantilever and rotary shafts to transfer axial or radial load and need to be retained in all three directions (radial, axial, and circumferential) in relation to their housings and shafts. In this blog, we’ll use some examples of bearings in machinery, and their retaining methods to explain how they work.