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This document contains 11 exercises related to special vehicles such as airplanes, helicopters, and drones. The exercises cover topics like calculating wing area needed for lift, functions of Russian ground effect vehicles, reasons for engine placement on seaplanes, challenges of helicopter flight, maneuvers after helicopter engine failure, functions of the helicopter swashplate, calculating minimum tail rotor moment arm, stability of hovering aircraft like the Harrier, purpose of hatches on the F-35, meaning of the acronym JATO, and issues regarding using drones for passenger transport.

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Assignment 9

This document contains 11 exercises related to special vehicles such as airplanes, helicopters, and drones. The exercises cover topics like calculating wing area needed for lift, functions of Russian ground effect vehicles, reasons for engine placement on seaplanes, challenges of helicopter flight, maneuvers after helicopter engine failure, functions of the helicopter swashplate, calculating minimum tail rotor moment arm, stability of hovering aircraft like the Harrier, purpose of hatches on the F-35, meaning of the acronym JATO, and issues regarding using drones for passenger transport.

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Exercises Lecture 9

Special vehicles

Prof. dr. ir. Jacco Hoekstra


Tim van Leeuwen
Delft University of Technology

M. Scheikl - CC - BY
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AE1110x - Introduction to Aeronautical Engineering

Exercise 1
Suppose an airliner is planning to fly an Airbus A319 very low over a water surface, thereby increasing
its lift by 40%. However, the airliner does not need 40% extra lift, instead it decides to reduce the
wing area such that the aircraft generates the same lift as a normal A319. What would the wing
area (in square metres) of this modified A319 have to be?

Exercise 2
What function(s) were the Russian ground effect planes meant to carry out:
A) Be invisible to radar and sonar
B) Hunt down submarines quickly
C) Weapon transport
D) Transport troops
E) Fast sea patrol

Exercise 3
Why are the engines of all Russian sea planes so high up?
A) To ensure stability whilst flying so low over water.
B) To prevent water ingestion at the engines.
C) To avoid blowing hot air over the wings.
D) To keep the nose of the aircraft down and prevent the sea plane flying too high.

Exercise 4
Why are helicopters so hard to fly? (Multiple answers can be correct)
A) There are more controls than in an aircraft.
B) Helicopters are inherently unstable.
C) There are a lot of cross-couplings between the controls.
D) Helicopters are influenced severely by their rotor turbulence.

Exercise 5
What do we call the manoeuvre which is to be performed after a helicopter engine failure?

Exercise 6
What is/are the functions of the swashplate?
A) It acts as a transmission between the shaft and the rotor.
B) It controls the angle of attack of the rotor blades collectively.
C) It controls the angle of attack of the rotor blades individually.
D) It controls the velocity distribution over the blades.

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AE1110x - Introduction to Aeronautical Engineering

Exercise 7
The main rotor of a helicopter produces a torque of 4.8 kNm. If the tail rotor is capable of producing
720 Newtons of thrust, calculate the minimum tail rotor moment arm (in metres).

Exercise 8
What type(s) of stability does a hovering Harrier jet (shown below) possess?

Figure 1: A hovering Harrier. Image courtesy of Jumbero, CC - BY - SA

Exercise 9
In pictures such as the one below you might have noticed that the modern F-35 (the Joint Strike
Fighter) has odd ’hatches’, see the blue circles in the picture below. What would these hatches be
for?

Figure 2: A hovering Joint Strike Fighter, with its hatches exposed.

Exercise 10
What does the acronym JATO stand for?

Exercise 11
Which of the following is/are not issues regarding the use of UAVs for passenger transport?
A) Technical feasibility
B) Acceptance
C) Reliability of automation
D) Communication channels between aircraft and ground

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