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What type of flight control system was developed in the 1950s and 60s to relax the stability of an aircraft in an effort to make it more maneuverable? - Correct answer: Fly-by-wire What is the term used to name what happens when an uplink or down link is broken? - Correct answer: Lost link Which of...

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What type of flight control system was developed in the 1950s and 60s to relax the stability of an
aircraft in an effort to make it more maneuverable? Correct Answer: Correct answer: Fly-by-
wire

What is the term used to name what happens when an uplink or down link is broken? Correct
Answer: Correct answer: Lost link

Which of the following would be an example of a sUAS? Correct Answer: Correct answer:
ScanEagle

Name the component of a UA that houses most of the equipment and acts as the basic structure.
Correct Answer: Correct answer: Fuselage

What is scattering? Correct Answer: Correct answer: Beam of radio waves hitting a mass of
smaller materials, which individually reflect and spread the radio waves in different directions

What electro-mechanical device can be used to move a control surface? Correct Answer:
Correct answer: Servo

A UAS remote pilot can collapse and make his/her display completely disappear, if desired.
Correct Answer: Correct answer: True

What bandwidth of EMR is useful for looking at the thermal emittance of an object? Correct
Answer: Correct answer: Infrared

What multirotor configuration sUAS uses vectored thrust to control the yaw axis? Correct
Answer: Correct answer: Tricopter

What does an image's geolocation data contain? Correct Answer: Correct answer: Sensor's
location

What type of sensor is an electro-optical camera using as a flash for illumination at night?
Correct Answer: Correct answer: Active

What can limit a datalink's strength/range? Correct Answer: Correct answer: Environmental
factors, power, antenna type, and range

Most UAS pilot displays of a modern-day GCS are in a _____ configuration. Correct Answer:
Correct answer: lateral

What is based on information critical to the operation of the aircraft? Correct Answer: Correct
answer: Display design

,What technology was added to the TDR-1 that made it different from all previous UAS? Correct
Answer: Correct answer: Television guidance

Which of the follow is considered contingency planning? Correct Answer: Correct answer: Lost
communications flight plan

What system was the original genesis of the modern-day Predator? Correct Answer: Correct
answer: Leading Systems Amber

Air temperature decreases and air density _____ with increases in altitude. Correct Answer:
Correct answer: decreases

What are the four core components of a UAS? Correct Answer: Correct answer: Unmanned
aircraft, payload, control station, control link

In general, as the AOA of an airfoil increases, what two forces also increase? Correct Answer:
Correct answer: Lift and drag

Digital imagery can be transmitted from a remote sensing platform to a ground station using the
_____. Correct Answer: Correct answer: RF datalink

What is the primary role of a GCS? Correct Answer: Correct answer: Keep the pilot out of the
plane

What was the primary mission of the Lightning Bug in Vietnam? Correct Answer: Correct
answer: Reconnaissance

In what year did Congress mandate UAS integration into the national airspace? Correct Answer:
Correct answer: 2012

What is one of the most important factors affecting overall aircraft performance? Correct
Answer: Correct answer: Air density

What was the first operational targeting drone? Correct Answer: Correct answer: De Havilland
Queen Bee

What modern-day sUAS powerhouse did Dr. Paul MacCready start? Correct Answer: Correct
answer: AeroVironment

What information is transmitted through uplink? Correct Answer: Correct answer: Commands

What is reflection? Correct Answer: Correct answer: Result of radio waves bouncing off the
surface of an object and changing direction

, The term sense and avoid is used in the UAS industry to _____. Correct Answer: Correct
answer: transmit information for aircraft self-separation

What type of remote sensing payload would be most useful in the detection of missing persons?
Correct Answer: Correct answer: Infrared

What are the FAA's three categories of UAS? Correct Answer: Correct answer: Micro, Small,
UAS

What is the term for the remote sensor being pointed straight down from the aircraft in a line
perpendicular to Earth's surface? Correct Answer: Correct answer: Nadir

How is silicon, a natural insulator, turned into a semiconductor in CCDs and CMOS sensors?
Correct Answer: Correct answer: Dope with traces of other elements

What is the purpose of a datalink? Correct Answer: Correct answer: Establish reliable
communications between the AV and GCS

UAS like the Lightning Bug initially used INS guidance. What technology increased the
accuracy and capability of UAS? Correct Answer: Correct answer: Global Positioning System

What are the three technology issues facing UAS' full integration into the airspace? Correct
Answer: Correct answer: Reliability, development of Detect and Avoid technology, control link
security

Name the two primary types of antennas. Correct Answer: Correct answer: Omni and directional

Point cloud derivative products can be generated using what type of sensor? Correct Answer:
Correct answer: Either passive or active

An orbit is when an AV can fly a circular pattern until the AV is reacquired, in the event of a lost
communications. Correct Answer: Correct answer: True

The payload operator and AV remote pilot work together to get the best imagery. Correct
Answer: Correct answer: True

What is one of the uses of photogrammetry? Correct Answer: Correct answer: Measuring
distances and sizes

A function of the GCS is payload monitoring and control. Correct Answer: Correct answer: True

What U.S. government organization regulates frequencies? Correct Answer: Correct answer:
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

What is the primary functional use of a RADAR or LiDAR sensor? Correct Answer: Correct
answer: Measuring distances

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