Assembly & Rigging Test Questions and
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A spring in the elevator control system that produces a mechanical force that tries to lower the
elevator: ✔️✔️Elevator downspring
What spring whose tension may be controlled by the pilot: ✔️✔️Bungee spring
A plastic or wooden guide used to prevent a steel control cable rubbing against an aircraft
structure: ✔️✔️Fairlead
What tube in an aircraft control system that transmits a torsional force from the operating
control to the control surface: ✔️✔️Torque tube
What type of wing that is supported by its internal structure and requires no external supports:
✔️✔️Cantilever wing
The positive angle formed between the lateral axis of an airplane and a line which passes
through the center of the wing or the horizontal stabilizer: ✔️✔️Dihedral
Two very important alignments must be made for the wings of an airplane: ✔️✔️Dihedral and
angle if incidence
What is a twist in an airplane wing that increases its angle of incidence near the tip:
✔️✔️Wash in
What is a twist in an airplane wing that decreases its angle of incidence near the lip:
✔️✔️Wash out
, A check of an airframe to determine that the wings and tail are symmetrical about the
longitudinal axis: ✔️✔️Symmetry check
What determines control cable tension by measuring the force required to deflect the cable a
specific amount: ✔️✔️A tensiometer
A component in an aircraft control system used to adjust cable tension. ✔️✔️Turnbuckle
What can be used to measure control surface deflection for propellers: ✔️✔️Universal
propeller protractor
Rotating about the same axis: ✔️✔️Coaxial
What rotor blades are free to flap, drag, and feather: ✔️✔️Fully articulated rotor
What rotor are free to feather, and blades flap as rotor rocks back and forth as a unit:
✔️✔️Semirigid rotor
What rotor are free to feather, but are not hinged to flap or drag: ✔️✔️Rigid rotor
All helicopters must have some means of disconnecting the engine from the rotor in case of
engine failure. This unit is called: ✔️✔️freewheeling unit
The condition of a helicopter rotor in which each blade follows in exactly the same path as the
blade ahead of it. ✔️✔️Blade track
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A spring in the elevator control system that produces a mechanical force that tries to lower the
elevator: ✔️✔️Elevator downspring
What spring whose tension may be controlled by the pilot: ✔️✔️Bungee spring
A plastic or wooden guide used to prevent a steel control cable rubbing against an aircraft
structure: ✔️✔️Fairlead
What tube in an aircraft control system that transmits a torsional force from the operating
control to the control surface: ✔️✔️Torque tube
What type of wing that is supported by its internal structure and requires no external supports:
✔️✔️Cantilever wing
The positive angle formed between the lateral axis of an airplane and a line which passes
through the center of the wing or the horizontal stabilizer: ✔️✔️Dihedral
Two very important alignments must be made for the wings of an airplane: ✔️✔️Dihedral and
angle if incidence
What is a twist in an airplane wing that increases its angle of incidence near the tip:
✔️✔️Wash in
What is a twist in an airplane wing that decreases its angle of incidence near the lip:
✔️✔️Wash out
, A check of an airframe to determine that the wings and tail are symmetrical about the
longitudinal axis: ✔️✔️Symmetry check
What determines control cable tension by measuring the force required to deflect the cable a
specific amount: ✔️✔️A tensiometer
A component in an aircraft control system used to adjust cable tension. ✔️✔️Turnbuckle
What can be used to measure control surface deflection for propellers: ✔️✔️Universal
propeller protractor
Rotating about the same axis: ✔️✔️Coaxial
What rotor blades are free to flap, drag, and feather: ✔️✔️Fully articulated rotor
What rotor are free to feather, and blades flap as rotor rocks back and forth as a unit:
✔️✔️Semirigid rotor
What rotor are free to feather, but are not hinged to flap or drag: ✔️✔️Rigid rotor
All helicopters must have some means of disconnecting the engine from the rotor in case of
engine failure. This unit is called: ✔️✔️freewheeling unit
The condition of a helicopter rotor in which each blade follows in exactly the same path as the
blade ahead of it. ✔️✔️Blade track
