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7614587 Procedure and device for improving the maneuverability of an aircraft during the approach to landing and flare-out phases  
The process improves the maneuverability of an aircraft during the approach to landing and then flare-out phases, the aircraft being equipped with air brakes. According to the process, the air...
7611098 Flight management process for an aircraft  
A process wherein an aircraft starts from a cruising position by flying at a cruising speed to reach a position that intercepts the glide slope. The process can include the steps of decelerating...
6711479 Avionics system for determining terminal flightpath  
A method, avionics apparatus and computer program for determining a terminal flight path, including access to aircraft position information provided by a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver....
6676088 Flare control system  
An aircraft flare control system for semi-automatically controlling the pitch and thrust of an aircraft during landing is disclosed. The system includes a flight director and indication of the...
6575410 Glide slope tracking system  
An airborne glide slope tracking system includes a radio altimeter for producing a signal indicative of the instantaneous altitude of the aircraft and a glide slope error indicator for producing a...
5957412 Method and device for vertical guidance of an aircraft  
The present invention relates to a method and a device for guiding an aircraft (A) according to a prescribed vertical flight path (T). According to the invention: the vertical distance he...
5823479 Landing attitude modifier for airplane  
A method modifying the landing pitch attitude of an airplane during landing approach and touchdown is disclosed. A reference value for a predetermined flight condition parameter is subtracted from...
5716032 Unmanned aerial vehicle automatic landing system  
An automatic landing system for guiding an unmanned aerial vehicle along a predetermined path to a predetermined point on the ground. The system includes an image processing means resident in the...
5712785 Aircraft landing determination apparatus and method  
An aircraft landing determination apparatus and method for determining landing status of an aircraft by tracking arriving aircrafts and providing a unique runway assignment therefor. The aircraft...
5170163 Aircraft performance monitoring  
An aircraft performance monitor 1 receives signals representative of the height h, rate of change of height h and vertical acceleration θ of the aircraft. The monitor 1 determines when (h-A( n s n...
5020747 Method and apparatus for controlling flare engagement height in automatic landing systems  
Disclosed is a method of and apparatus for determining the flare height at which the flare maneuver of an automatic landing procedure is initiated. The method includes the step of generating an...
4908619 Aircraft stall warning system  
A stall warning "stick shaker" reference level signal is produced as a function of both flap position and total aircraft thrust. More specifically, a correction term Δα is combined with a...
4695013 Landing aid  
A warning device, for a helicopter with a tail rotor and a mechanical protection device therefor, for giving during emergency power-loss landings a flare signal to the pilot to initiate flare...
4419732 Method and apparatus for an aircraft inner loop elevator control system  
An improved inner loop control is disclosed for use in an aircraft pitch axis control system. Signals representative of vertical acceleration and pitch rate are complementary filtered and summed to...
4357661 Aircraft landing control system  
Upon aircraft landing approach, flare path command signals of altitude, vertical velocity and vertical acceleration are generated as functions of aircraft position and velocity with respect to the...
4354237 Method and apparatus for producing an aircraft flare path control signal  
Aircraft altitude, ground velocity, and altitude rate signals are input to a computer which, using a unique control law, generates a pitch control surface command signal suitable for guiding an...
4127248 Adaptive energy management for vertical speed control of an aircraft  
A system for generating an optimum vertical speed command and controlling the aircraft to this command by allowing the aircraft to assume an optium trimmed condition for the thrust energy available...
4093159 Semi-automatic aircraft control system  
A flight control type system which provides a tactile readout to the hand of a pilot for directing elevator control during both approach to flare-out and departure maneuvers. For altitudes above...
4032093 Adaptive energy management for vertical speed control of an aircraft  
A system for generating an optimum vertical speed command and controlling the aircraft to this command by allowing the aircraft to assume an optimum trimmed condition for the thrust energy...
3960348 Aerodynamic surface control feel augmentation system  
In a helicopter, a pilot-actuated lever controls, through linkage mechanisms, a servo valve to drive a hydraulic piston; the piston moves a swash plate which in turn controls movement of rotor...
3824381 AIRCRAFT CONTROL SYSTEM USING INERTIAL SIGNALS  
A system using inertial signals for controlling an aircraft to capture a radio beam. The system uses a shaped beam error signal and the inertial signals to provide a steering signal. The steering...
3801049 AUTOMATIC APPROACH LANDING AND GO-AROUND PITCH AXIS CONTROL SYSTEM FOR AIRCRAFT  
The invention relates to a system utilizing an exponential control law for glide slope capture and flare. The capture maneuver from above or below the beam, is a function of decreasing glide slope...
3670149 AUTOMATIC FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS  
The specification discloses an aircraft control apparatus for supplying a "flare-out phase" pitch demand signal for an aircraft automatic pilot of such a character as to render the autopilot less...
3652835 AIRCRAFT GLIDE SLOPE COUPLER SYSTEM  
A glide slope coupler adaptable to both Autopilot and Flight Director modes for guiding an aircraft to a landing along a radio defined glide slope beam. An integrator common to both modes...
3626163 AUTOMATIC LANDING SYSTEM  
A simple and inexpensive multimode automatic landing system comprising altitude hold means, glide slope control means, and flare control means. Air data sensing means are utilized in all systems,...
3604908 LANDING CONTROL SYSTEM FOR AIRCRAFT  
An improved automatic landing control system for aircraft in which the automatic control system flarepath control law parameters includes a normally fixed bias term for establishing a nominal...
3578269 AUTOMATIC FLARE AND ALTITUDE HOLD SYSTEM  
The invention disclosed by one representative embodiment herein includes an automatic pitch control system for an aircraft wherein a manual setting at any selected altitude produces a signal which...
3523664 TERMINAL FLARE CONTROLLER  
3512061 MONITORING CONTROL FOR AN AIRCRAFT LANDING SYSTEM INCLUDING PLURAL COMPARITORS TO TEST OR ISOLATE INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS  
3489378 CONTROL OF AIRCRAFT  
3447765 AUTOMATIC CONTROL SYSTEM FOR LANDING AN AIRCRAFT  
3418458 Visual indicating devices for aircraft  
3399849 Lift and pitch control apparatus for aircraft  
3333795 Flare computer  
3323124 Guidance control signal developing apparatus  
3310259 Missile glide path maintained constant by the use of static and pitot-head pressures  
3309707 Guidance computer for aircraft landing system  
3295796 Flight control system  
3282537 Aircraft control systems  
3279724 Landing control equipment  
3266039 Adjustable gain control means for the control signal of a flight director situation display  
3265333 Override control means for automatic landing system  
3266040 Flight control system responsive to approach and flare-out bi-angular elevation transmissions  
3210763 Flight control system  
3189904 Aircraft landing systems  
3189905 Aircraft landing systems  
3177484 Position indicating system  
3157877 Aircraft landing system  
3115319 Flare-out system  
3081969 Aircraft flare-out landing system  
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