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- Definição1
- Weight installed in an airplane to ensure that the center of gravity is always within the permissible limits. In some aircraft, fuel is used as a ballast. This fuel, however, cannot be burned by the aircraft.
- Fonte1
- KUMAR, Bharat (ed.). An illustrated dictionary of aviation. New York: McGraw-Hill, c2005. 752 p.
- Contexto
- Each captive gas balloon must have a means for the safe storage and controlled release of ballast. The ballast must consist of material that, if released during flight, is not hazardous to persons on the ground.
- Subárea1
- Airworthiness
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