RAD has various meanings in the Aviation category. Discover the full forms, definitions, and usage contexts of RAD in Aviation.
A ventilation system beneath the floor of a basement and/or structural wood floor and designed to fan exhaust radon gas to the outside of the home. Energy transmitted from a heat source to the air around it. Radiators actually depend more on convection than radiation. Radiation the phenomenon by which sources generate energy, which propagates away from them in the form of waves.
AviationGeneral name for methods of signalling or communicating through space by electro-magnetic waves
AviationAcronym for RAdio Detection And Ranging. An electronic system designed to transmit radio signals and receive reflected images of those signals from a 'target' in order to determine the bearing and distance to the 'target'.
AviationLine from a VOR or NDB. For example, the 180 radial from a VOR represents a line south of that VOR. In a direction directly outward from the center of a circle or sphere or from the axis of a cylinder. The spokes of a wheel, for example, are radial. A magnetic bearing extending from a very high frequency omni-range and/or tactical air navigation station.
AviationTo spread out from a central area. For example, sciatic pain may radiate outward from the lower back.
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