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tail cone
- Definição1
- An aft exit from the passenger compartment through the pressure shell and through an openable cone of the fuselage aft of the pressure shell.
- Fonte1
- INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. Provisional acceptable means of compliance: emergency evacuation provisions. Montreal, 1968. (Cir. 55 AN/50/2).
- Fonte2
- INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. Committee on aviation environmental protection. Eighth meeting, Montreal, 1-12 february 2010: report. Montreal, 2010. (Doc. 9938 CAEP/8).
- Nota adicional1
- The means of opening the tail cone should be simple and obvious.
- Contexto
- An auxiliary power unit (APU) is a small gas-turbine engine coupled to an electrical generator and is used to provide electrical and pneumatic power to aircraft systems when required. It is normally mounted in the tail cone of the aircraft, behind the rear pressure bulkhead, and runs on kerosene fed from the main fuel tanks. Not all aircraft are fitted with APU, and though their use on transport category jet aircraft is now almost universal, some turboprops and business jets do not have an APU fitted.
- Subárea1
- Aircraft Structure
- Português
- cone de cauda