USI chapters 1-17 study guide

USI chapters 1-17 study guide Unit 1 What did Elmer Sperry contribute to the history or UAS? - ✔✔Automatic stabilization What are the three technology issues facing UAS' full integration into the airspace? - ✔✔Reliab ...

USI chapters 1-17 study guide Unit 1 What did Elmer Sperry contribute to the history or UAS? - ✔✔Automatic stabilization What are the three technology issues facing UAS' full integration into the airspace? - ✔✔Reliability, development of Detect and Avoid technology, control link security What is the difference between a guided missile and a modern UAS? - ✔✔Modern UAS are intended for recovery and guided missiles are expendable UAS like the Lightning Bug initially used INS guidance. What technology increased the accuracy and capability of UAS? - ✔✔Global Positioning System What was the primary mission of the Lightning Bug in Vietnam? - ✔✔Reconnaissance Why is the term "unmanned aircraft system" used versus terms like UAV or drone? - ✔✔To represent all of the components of a UAS not just the air vehicle What was the first full-scale remotely piloted aircraft? - ✔✔Sopwith Aerial Target In what year did Congress mandate UAS integration into the national airspace? - ✔✔2012 Which of the following would be an example of a sUAS? - ✔✔ScanEagle What are the two distinctive types of unmanned aircraft systems? - ✔✔Autonomous and remote control What modern-day sUAS powerhouse did Dr. Paul MacCready start? - ✔✔AeroVironment What technology was added to the TDR-1 that made it different from all previous UAS? - ✔✔Television guidance What are the FAA's three categories of UAS? - ✔✔Micro, Small, UAS What year did nonmilitary agencies begin using UAS? - ✔✔2004 What "first" for UAS was first credited to Reginald Denny? - ✔✔Mass production What system was the original genesis of the modern-day Predator? - ✔✔Leading Systems Amber What UAS was created by Israel in the 1970s and battle tested in 1982? - ✔✔Scout What type of UAS remote pilots did the FAA first authorize? - ✔✔Public What is the upper GTOW limit of a small UAS? - ✔✔Less than 55 pounds Who patented a way to control vehicles remotely using radio waves? - ✔✔Nikola Tesla What was the first operational targeting drone? - ✔✔De Havilland Queen Bee What are the four core components of a UAS? - ✔✔Unmanned aircraft, payload, control station, control link Unit 2 - ✔✔ What are the four forces that act on an aircraft in flight? - ✔✔Lift, weight, thrust, and drag What electro-mechanical device can be used to move a control surface? - ✔✔Servo What type of flight control system was developed in the 1950s and 60s to relax the stability of an aircraft in an effort to make it more maneuverable? - ✔✔Fly-by-wire Air temperature decreases and air density _____ with increases in altitude. - ✔✔decreases In general, as the AOA of an airfoil increases, what two forces also increase? - ✔✔Lift and drag What is the most common power source for sUAS today? - ✔✔Brushless DC electric motors and LiPo batteries What four parameters are required to calculate density altitude? - ✔✔Barometric pressure, air temperature, dew point, and field elevation UA can move through 3-D space with _____ degrees of freedom. - ✔✔six Which of the following changes can a remote pilot expect if the UA is overweight? - ✔✔Decrease in maneuverability What is one of the most important factors affecting overall aircraft performance? - ✔✔Air density What are the three degrees of motion that illustrate rotation around axes? - ✔✔Pitch, roll, and yaw Which fixed-wing aircraft control surface can create movement around the lateral axis? - ✔✔Elevator Rotary-wing aircraft fall into which two categories? - ✔✔Helicopter and multirotor What multirotor configuration uses vectored thrust to control the yaw axis? - ✔✔Tricopter What type of sUAS is best suited to be powered by an internal combustion engine? - ✔✔Fixed wing A helicopter is a type of _____ aircraft. - ✔✔rotary-wing What is the primary advantage of rotary-wing aircraft over a fixed-wing? - ✔✔VTOL and hovering flight capability Name the component of a UA that houses most of the equipment and acts as the basic structure. - ✔✔Fuselage Unit 3 - ✔✔ What is used to measure distance of a radio wavelength? - ✔✔Two adjacent points on the wave What is antenna gain? - ✔✔Resultant increase by amplitude of the signal What is diffraction? - ✔✔Radio waves bending and moving around an object Name the two primary types of antennas. - ✔✔Omni and directional What information is transmitted through uplink? - ✔✔Commands