PSN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

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DEPARTMENT OF AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING
QUESTION BANK – ANSWERS

201023 - HELICOPTER ENGINEERING

PART – A

UINT – 1

1. What is a Helicopter?
2. Differentiate between fixed wing aircraft and rotary wing aircraft.
3. What is the importance of Auxiliary Rotor?
4. What is Compound Helicopter?
5. Differentiate between Gyrodyne and Helicopter.
6. What are the three possible Degrees of Freedom for a helicopter
blade?
7. What are the important parts of a Rotor System?
8. What is Hovering?
9. What are the advantages of Helicopter over an Aircraft?
10. What is meant by Blade Loading?

UINT – 2

1. What is induced velocity?

2. What are the types of drags acting on a Rotor blade?
3. What is ideal twist?
4. What are the drawbacks of momentum theory?
5. What is twisting and tapering?
 6. What is importance of blade element theory?
7. Why helicopter blades should be twisted and tapered?
8. What is optimum hovering rotor?
9. What is ground effect?
10. What is tip loss?

UINT – 3

1. Why dynamics of forward flight is complex?

2. What is Energy method?
3. What is meant by “Induced Power?”
4. Write equation of “Total Equivalent Drag Force”.
5. What is “Weighting Curve?”
6. Write equation of “Equivalent flat-plate drag area”.
7. Why stall is concentrated more on the retreating side of the rotor?
8. How the stall of a helicopter differs from the stall of an auto gyro?
9. Why aircraft wing aero foils are not suited for rotors?
10. What is Drag Bucket problem?

UINT – 4

1. Classify the stability.

2. Explain the condition of TRIM.
3. What is meant by DOUBLE and HALF AMPLITUDE?
4. What is Control Power?
5. Define Longitudinal Static Stability for a helicopter.
6. On what factors rotor damping depends and how it varies?
7. What are the important types of static stability that should be considered
for a helicopter?
 8. How can the dynamic stability for a helicopter in forward flight be
reduced?
9. How rotor plane alignment contributes to the stability of the helicopter?
10. How NACA measured the static stability of the helicopter?

UINT – 4

1. In a flow field when is the momentum equation valid?

2. What is meant by Turbulence?
3. What is the significance of “mean effective induced velocity?”
4. Write the momentum equation in normal working state.
5. What is the influence of pitch & twist on the flow states of rotor?
6. Why the drag theory is under estimating the performance of rotor?
7. Which type of take off is preferable when helicopter is overloaded and
why?

8. What is Critical Decision Point and Landing Decision Point?

9. When can vertical takeoffs best suited?