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