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    This document contains questions about aircraft flight control surfaces, stability, and rotorcraft. Specifically: - It asks about different types of flaps and how they affect lift, including plain, split, slotted, and Fowler flaps. As well as how a split flap performs better at high angles of attack compared to a plain flap. - Questions are asked about how leading edge devices, trailing edge flaps, and combinations of the two affect stall angle and maximum lift coefficient when plotted on a graph. - The document also contains questions about aircraft stability, including topics like static and dynamic balancing, neutral point, static margin, roll damping, and how center of gravity affects longitudinal, lateral, and directional stability

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    Short Answer Questions in Quiz 2

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    This document contains questions about aircraft flight control surfaces, stability, and rotorcraft. Specifically: - It asks about different types of flaps and how they affect lift, including plain, split, slotted, and Fowler flaps. As well as how a split flap performs better at high angles of attack compared to a plain flap. - Questions are asked about how leading edge devices, trailing edge flaps, and combinations of the two affect stall angle and maximum lift coefficient when plotted on a graph. - The document also contains questions about aircraft stability, including topics like static and dynamic balancing, neutral point, static margin, roll damping, and how center of gravity affects longitudinal, lateral, and directional stability

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    This document contains questions about aircraft flight control surfaces, stability, and rotorcraft. Specifically: - It asks about different types of flaps and how they affect lift, including plain, split, slotted, and Fowler flaps. As well as how a split flap performs better at high angles of attack compared to a plain flap. - Questions are asked about how leading edge devices, trailing edge flaps, and combinations of the two affect stall angle and maximum lift coefficient when plotted on a graph. - The document also contains questions about aircraft stability, including topics like static and dynamic balancing, neutral point, static margin, roll damping, and how center of gravity affects longitudinal, lateral, and directional stability

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    Short Answer Questions in Quiz 2

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    This document contains questions about aircraft flight control surfaces, stability, and rotorcraft. Specifically: - It asks about different types of flaps and how they affect lift, including plain, split, slotted, and Fowler flaps. As well as how a split flap performs better at high angles of attack compared to a plain flap. - Questions are asked about how leading edge devices, trailing edge flaps, and combinations of the two affect stall angle and maximum lift coefficient when plotted on a graph. - The document also contains questions about aircraft stability, including topics like static and dynamic balancing, neutral point, static margin, roll damping, and how center of gravity affects longitudinal, lateral, and directional stability

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    A1.

    Name two main methods which the flaps are used to increase aircraft lift.

    A2. By drawing CL vs. AoA curve for different kinds of flap (i.e. plain, split, slotted and
    Fowler flap) show clearly their effects on the wings maximum lift coefficient (CL max),
    stall angle and lift curve slope.
    A3.
    Explain why a split flap has better performance at a high incidence angle in
    comparison to the plain flap.
    A4.

    By drawing CL vs. curves for a wing with


    a) only trailing edge flap
    b) only leading edge flap; and
    c) combination of leading edge and trailing edge flaps

    compare their stall angles and CLmax with those of a wing (without any lift augmentation
    devices) (Draw all four curves on one graph)
    A5.

    What is the main aim of using leading edge devices on wings?

    A6.

    a) Describe the difference(s) between active and passive lift augmentation devices.

    b) How much improvement in wings CLmax can be achieved by each method


    separately.
    A7. Name four different types of flight control static balancing/rebalancing used by
    aeroplane manufacturers and explain what might occur if a control surface is
    underbalance?
    A8. Explain two methods of aerodynamic balancing of the flight controls. (You may use
    a sketch drawing if it assists you in describing the methods).
    A9. Name 2 secondary control surfaces
    A10. Explain how a sweepback angle improves the lateral stability of a fixed wing
    aircraft.
    A11.Define the terms neutral point and static margin in static longitudinal stability.
    A12. By refer to roll damping explain why all conventional aircraft are laterally stable.
    (You may use a sketch drawing if it assists you in describing the methods).
    A13. Draw a typical Cn Vs. (Yawing moment coefficient Vs. sideslip angle) for a
    statically stable, statically unstable and neutrally stable aircraft. You must also show
    sign conventions associated with the graph.
    A14. Explain how vertical and horizontal CG movement affects the:
    a) longitudinal stability of an aircraft
    b) Lateral stability of an aircraft

    c) Directional stability of an aircraft


    A15. Describe why dissymmetry of lift occurs in rotary wings and name the method(s) of
    overcoming that condition.
    A16. Explain why the design of a rotor blade is more difficult than that of a conventional
    rectangular wing.
    A17. Explain how it is possible that a few flexible blades can carry the weight of a
    helicopter and its payload, which in the case of MIL Mi6 Hook (picture below)
    reaches up to 88000 lb.

    A18. The traditional top speed of helicopters is around M=0.2 which is much lower than
    max speed of even subsonic fixed wing aircraft. Explain what limitations restrict the
    increase in maximum forward speed of rotary wings.
    A19. Name which control device a helicopter pilot uses to move an aircraft forward and
    sideway as well as to descend and climb?
    A20. Briefly explain the similarities and differences of boundary layer separation (stall) in
    subsonic and supersonic flight.
    A21. What aerofoil section characteristics would give a high critical Mach number?
    A22. Fully describe how the properties of airflow change when it passes through a
    normal shockwave.

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