Aircraft Structural Assembly and Rigging Flashcards
What is the function of a vortex generator?
It is designed to delay or prevent separation of the boundary layer.
What are the three axes of an airplane?
Longitudinal, lateral, and vertical.
What are the three primary flight controls of an aircraft?
The ailerons, elevator, and rudder.
What is a servo trim tab?
It is an auxiliary control, positioned by the movement of a cockpit control and designed to create aerodynamic forces to assist in moving a control surface.
What is a spring tab?
It is an auxiliary control designed to aid the movement of a primary control at high speeds when control forces become too high.
What is a balance trim tab?
It is an auxiliary control designed to create aerodynamic forces to assist in moving a control surface. The tab is positioned by a control rod connected to the fixed surface on the same side as the horn on the tab.
What are the four most common types of high-lift devices?
Leading and trailing edge flaps, slats, and slots.
Describe some of the tools used to check the travel of a control surface?
A universal propeller protractor or special control surface protractor.
Name three mechanical methods by which flight control systems may be actuated.
Cables, push-pull rods, and torque tubes.
What is a fairlead?
It is a device used to prevent a cable from rubbing on the aircraft structure.
What are the most likely places for a control cable to wear or break?
Where the cables pass over pulleys or through fairleads.
What information is required before a cable rigging chart can be used?
The ambient temperature and the cable size.
What is the function of a cable tension regulator?
It automatically adjusts the cable tension to compensate for expansion and contraction in the aircraft structure.
Describe the function of a rotorcraft collective pitch control.
The collective control causes each rotor blade to change its pitch angle by the same amount, thus increasing or decreasing the lift produced by the rotor.
Describe the function of a rotorcraft cyclic pitch control.
The cyclic control tilts the main rotor disc by changing the pitch angle of each rotor blade during its cycle of rotation, which causes the helicopter to move in the direction of the rotor tilts.
