y Aerospace Abbreviation

y has various meanings in the Aerospace category. Discover the full forms, definitions, and usage contexts of y in Aerospace.

Year

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Unit of time based on one revolution of Earth around Sun It has varying values depending on point of definition used, and on mode employed See Anomalistic, Bissextile, Civil, Equinoctial, Leap, Mean Solar, Sidereal, Solar, and Tropical years The year in common use is the Civil Year

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Yaw

The angle of the aircraft's heading relative to the vertical axis and generally controlled by the pilot using the rudder and in which stability is provided by the fixed or nonmovable fin. Movement of an aircraft about its vertical axis, representing movement of its tail unit to port or starboard, to change the aircraft's heading. The rotational movement of an aircraft about its vertical axis, controlled by the rudder or the rotation of the model around the main rotor shaft, i.e.: tail rotor inputs.

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