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7603207 |
Surrogate air processor
A control system for remotely controlling a mobile platform includes a ground-based control station and a surrogate processor. The surrogate processor is remotely located from both the mobile...
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7596438 |
Beacon-based traffic control system
Disclosed is a beacon-based traffic control system installed in a motor vehicle for receiving a wireless signal from one of a plurality of beacons that arranged in multiple geographic locations,...
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7581702 |
Wirelessly controlling unmanned aircraft and accessing associated surveillance data
Controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) may be accomplished by using a wireless device (e.g., cell phone) to send a control message to a receiver at the UAV via a wireless telecommunication...
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7551989 |
Autonomous outer loop control of man-rated fly-by-wire aircraft
The present invention is directed to a control system for use on a fly-by-wire (FBW) aircraft. The system includes a controller coupled to the FBW aircraft. The controller is configured to generate...
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7451951 |
Miniature airplane apparatus and method
An apparatus is described comprising: an aircraft having one or more control surfaces; and one or more micro-electro mechanical systems (“MEM S”) actuators to control the movement of the one or...
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7362234 |
Controller for remote vehicles and craft and for virtual subjects
A control system which provides directional control over various real and virtual vehicles, craft and moveable subjects. The control system includes a housing, a controller in the housing having an...
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7350748 |
Modular construction of an aircraft control system
Apparatus is disclosed for disabling on-board pilot operation of an aircraft and transferring aircraft operation to an alternate source of control. The aircraft has an aircraft control system for...
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7271740 |
System and process for providing improved aircraft operational safety
The present invention relates to a system and a process for providing improved operational safety for aircraft. The system/process of the instant invention utilizes real-time, two-way transmission...
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7195208 |
Multi-device controller for model aircraft
Control system for radio-controlled aircraft. The control system includes a control master for simultaneously controlling a group of flight control means, for example, a group of ailerons. A...
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7183946 |
Safety aircraft flight system
The present invention is a computer system designed to use the conventional devices and special programming of the present invention that will ensure the safe operation of aircraft. The present...
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7120521 |
Anti hijacking fail-safe system with alert locator tracking capabilities
The Anti Hijacking Fail-safe System with Alert Locator Tracking Capabilities is a tamper-proof computer hardware/software system that could be installed in a commercial aircraft that, in case of an...
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7099752 |
Safelander
SAFELANDER provides a method of safely operating aircraft, equipped with a Flight Control Unit, Instrument Landing System, and Autopilot, remotely on the ground and/or in congested airspace. The...
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7099745 |
Robot system using virtual world
A robot system, operable to perform a task, is integrated on a robot with a sensor, a control module, and a virtual world. The virtual world represents a generic continuum including a collection of...
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6965816 |
PFN/TRAC system FAA upgrades for accountable remote and robotics control to stop the unauthorized use of aircraft and to improve equipment management and public safety in transportation
This invention, a Protected Primary Focal Node PFN is a Trusted Remote Activity Controller TRAC and mobile communication router platform that provides accountable remote and robotics control to...
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6917863 |
System for assuming and maintaining secure remote control of an aircraft
A method is disclosed for assuming and maintaining secure remote control of and aircraft in the event of an attack upon, or incapacity of the pilot of the aircraft. The method includes the...
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6898492 |
Self-contained flight data recorder with wireless data retrieval
A flight recorder designed for small aircraft captures various onboard flight data in real-time and stores it in non-volatile memory. Recorded data includes aircraft's instantaneous position,...
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6845303 |
Micro-satellite and satellite formation for inverse and distributed proximity operations
A method and apparatus for conducting proximity operations is disclosed. The method called inverser proximity operations includes maneuvering an active vehicle into general proximity to a target...
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6789768 |
Bordered flying tool
Differential Global Positioning System receivers ( 60 ) are located at the corners of a confined zone and receive signals from Global Positioning System satellites ( 62 ). The Differential Global...
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6739556 |
Method and apparatus for providing an aircraft emergency safety control system
A method and apparatus for providing an Aircraft Emergency Safety Control System (AESCS) capable of regaining control of an aircraft that may have been lost due to incapacitation of the crew...
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6694228 |
Control system for remotely operated vehicles for operational payload employment
A control system for a UAV includes control translations which maximize operational employment of the UAV payload. By determining spatial references, and then using the references to transform the...
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6691956 |
Airplane security system
An airplane security system, particularly for a commercial airliner, includes an on-board device for allowing a person not on-board the airplane to override an on-board piloting system for the...
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6641082 |
Aircraft ferrying system and method thereof
The invention is a system for ferrying at least one aircraft by a ferrying aircraft, the at least one aircraft and ferrying aircraft having vehicle management systems. In detail, the invention...
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6634593 |
Remote controlled aircraft, in particular for surveillance or inspection
The invention concerns a remote-controlled flying machine, in particular for surveillance and inspection, capable of hovering and comprising a spherical open-worked resistant shroud integral with a...
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6460810 |
Semiautonomous flight director
A device for programming industry standard autopilots by unskilled pilots. The effect of the invention is such that when the invention is employed in a flying body comprising an industry standard...
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6131065 |
Electronic flight data strips and method for air traffic control
A portable, re-usable, battery-powered, electronic device for storing, displaying and modifying air traffic control information. The electronic flight data strip receives input data from an...
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6025790 |
Position recognizing system of autonomous running vehicle
A camera assembly 10 images a distant landscape and a downward landscape every a predetermined period of time. A position recognizing unit 30 of a moving object (autonomous running vehicle) detects...
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6021980 |
Stabilization of radio controlled aircraft
A stabilization system is disclosed in which stabilization pitch and roll signals effective for stabilizing the aircraft are combined with respective pilot provided elevator and aileron position...
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5904724 |
Method and apparatus for remotely piloting an aircraft
A method and apparatus that allows a remote aircraft to be controlled by a remotely located pilot who is presented with a synthesized three-dimensional projected view representing the environment...
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5712446 |
Flat-sided model rocket and method therefor
The present invention is directed to an apparatus and method a flat-side model rocket. In the preferred embodiment, the model rocket is four-sided, and may be constructed by a user from wooden...
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5609312 |
Model helicopter
A fuselage structure for use on a model helicopter includes a longitudinally extending keel defined by a vertical flat plate oriented to lie in parallel relation to a longitudinal axis of the model...
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5531402 |
Wireless flight control system
A primary or backup flight control system for controlling the flight path of an aircraft or spacecraft using wireless transmitters (15 and 16) located near the flight deck (14) and positioned...
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5087000 |
Toy Airplane
A radio controlled toy airplane has an airframe with a fixed vertical tail plane, a fixed horizontal tail plane, and at least one set of rightside and leftside propellers. The rotational outputs of...
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4964598 |
Apparatus and method for controlling aircraft, particularly remotely-controlled aircraft
A remotely-controlled aircraft comprises a sensor for sensing the actual rate-of-turn of the aircraft and for generating a rate-of-turn signal proportional thereto, which signal, inherently also...
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4464116 |
Helicopter flight training device
This invention provides a helicopter flight training device. The device comprises, in combination, a free-flying, radio-controlled, scale model of a helicopter and a flight station that is a...
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4071811 |
Model helicopter throttle governor/collective pitch control apparatus
A throttle governor/collective pitch control apparatus for radio controlled model helicopters for proportionally controlling either the model helicopter rotor speed or the rotor collective pitch,...
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4061297 |
Approach range monitor
An area navigation system capable of operating during an ILS approach to provide the pilot range and bearing with respect to the outer and middle markers for a front course approach, and with...
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4012626 |
Vertical navigation control system
Apparatus for use with an area navigation system wherein the craft is maintained on a predetermined vertical flight path. Specifically, a pitch command signal for controlling the vertical flight of...
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3998412 |
Helical vertical path control apparatus for aircraft area navigation system
Control apparatus for an aircraft area navigation system provides a vertical path control signal to cause the aircraft to ascend or descend along a helical surface as the craft executes a...
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3994456 |
Steered lateral course transition control apparatus for aircraft area navigation systems
Control apparatus for an aircraft area navigation system computes a predetermined curved path from the inbound course to the outbound course of a waypoint or the inbound course to the next waypoint...
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3989209 |
Apparatus for guiding an aircraft along a multi-segment path when landing the craft
For use with a microwave landing system of the type including a ground based station for generating a relatively wide aircraft navigational beam and airborne equipment for deriving precision...
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3980258 |
Vertical navigation steering control system for aircraft
A vertical navigation steering control for aircraft for providing vertical steering of an aircraft along flight paths defined by waypoints which recognizes the problems introduced by lateral...
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3885760 |
Autopilot radio guidance signal circuit including controlled integrator
An autopilot command signal circuit for radio guidance in which the command signal comprises the sum of the radio guidance signal and the output of a threshold controlled integrator to which said...
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3814911 |
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERCEPTING A RADIO DEFINED COURSE
A method and apparatus for computing a maneuver initiating logic signal including suitable circuitry and steps to produce a crosstrack rate signal is modified by a course datum variable and a...
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3814352 |
REVERSING COMMAND MODIFIER
A reversing command modifier circuit for a composite beam and course steering command in an aircraft flight controller uses two operational amplifiers to prevent abrupt command signal changes from...
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3812333 |
LAGGED ROLL SYNCHRONIZATION AND WASHOUT MEANS FOR AIRCRAFT LATERAL AXIS CONTROL SYSTEM
A limited washout and synchronization means for developing a beam closure rate signal from bank gyro and lateral accelerometer input sensors permits a lagged roll signal mix with radio deviation in...
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3777123 |
TRUE DISTANCE TO WAY POINT AND OFFSET COMPUTER
Navigation equipment provides AC signals proportional to X and Y coordinates of an aircraft with respect to a selected way point which are applied to opposite ends of a series RC circuit, the...
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3776455 |
TERMINAL GUIDANCE SYSTEM
A terminal guidance system including a heading command subsystem and a glide-slope command subsystem which develop command signals for use in guiding an aircraft or other vehicle into a preselected...
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3739382 |
AIRCRAFT LATERAL GUIDANCE SYSTEM
Course and directional radio signals are combined to produce an aircraft guidance signal. The guidance signal is amplified and applied to control the intercept of the aircraft with a directional...
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3705306 |
AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION SYSTEM WITH VERTICAL GUIDANCE
An aircraft navigation system with vertical guidance in which a vertical profile is computed based on the difference in altitudes between start and destination points and the distance therebetween....
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3644722 |
VERTICAL CONTROL SYSTEM
A vertical control system which allows pilots of aircraft to control their ascent and descent based on distance and altitude information so as to reach a point over the ground at a desired...
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