Rotorcraft activity

Sistemas de Aeronaves
Santiago Romero
1. The purpose of the ventral fin on a helicopter is to provide
A. Directional stability
2. When the lift of an airfoil increase, the drag Will
A. Also increases
3. Ground resonance is a self-excited vibration found in
A. Fully articulated rotors
4. The cable operated control system of an all metal helicopter not incorporating
a temperature compensating device, has been rigged to the correct tension in a
heated hangar. If the helicopter is operated in very cold weather, the cable
tension Will
A. Decrease when the aircraft structure and cable become cold.
5. The elevator of a conventional helicopter is used to provide stability about the
A. Lateral axis
6. What is the purpose of the swash plate?
B. Coordinates control inputs from hydraulic pack
7. The universal propeller protractor can be used to measure
B. Degrees of blade flap travel
8. The chord of a main rotor is measured from
B. Blade tip to blade tip
9. The acute angle formed by the chord line of the rotor and the relative wind is
known as the
B. Longitudinal dihedral angle
10. If a single rotor helicopter is in forward horizontal flight, the angle of attack of
the retreating blade is
A. More than the advancing Blade
11. Which of the following are NOT functions of the tail rotor?
A. Lateral control
12. An increase in pitch angle of the tail rotor blades on a helicopter
A. Causes the tail to pivot in the opposite direction of torque rotation around the
main rotor axis
13. A fully articulated rotor head compensates for dissymmetry of lift through the
employment of a
A. Flapping hinge
14. In a hovering helicopter equipped with tail rotor, altitude control is
maintained by
A. Changing pitch of main rotor Blades
15. If a severe abnormal vertical vibration developed in a helicopter equipped
with a two blade rotor system, it would indicate that the
A. Rotor blades are out of track
16. What control is the throttle attached to
C. The quadrant on the console
17. If the tail rotor of a helicopter fails to compensate accurately for the torque of
the main rotor
B. The engine power suddenly drops
18. What does the cyclic pitch control of a helicopter do?
A. Tilts the tip path plane in the direction of desired movement.
19. The main rotor drag brace is adjustable in order to
A. Balance the main rotor in a chordwise direction.
20. The swashplate control tilts only when
A. Cyclic is moved
21. After accelerating into forward flight, the synchronized elevator tends to
A. Lower the tail boom
22. A high frequency vibration may be caused by
B. The main rotor being out of spanwise balance
23. Tracking of helicopter rotor blades is normally done
A. While the blades are rotating at a specific RPM and collective pitch angle
24. Greater down wash effect through the aft part of the main rotor disk
compared to the forward part of the disk is
A. Transverse flow lift
25. What kind of vibration would an out-of-track helicopter main rotor normally
cause?
A. Low frequency vertical vibration