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7571879 Automatic conversion system for tiltrotor aircraft  
One embodiment of the present invention is a method for automatically controlling the conversion of a tiltrotor aircraft. An airspeed command for the tiltrotor aircraft is received. The airspeed...
7568662 Emergency flight control system  
A method and system for preventing the control of an aircraft from the cockpit. In an exemplary embodiment, the system could be triggered externally. For example, an air traffic control (ATC)...
7543780 Unmanned air vehicle transmission line docking surveillance  
A small unmanned air vehicle system having autonomous electrical energy transmission line docking capability and especially usable in military or other surveillance situations. Transmission line...
7422176 Method for ensuring the safety of an aircraft flying horizontally at low speed  
A method for ensuring the safety of an aircraft flying horizontally at low speed includes determining a lower speed threshold for the aircraft, measuring the actual speed of the aircraft and...
7410133 Miniature trailing edge effector for aerodynamic control  
Improved miniature trailing edge effectors for aerodynamic control are provided. Three types of devices having aerodynamic housings integrated to the trailing edge of an aerodynamic shape are...
7383104 Low-noise flight support system  
It is an object of the present invention to provide a system that is used to provide support so that a pilot can perform flight operations that reduce noise pollution, by devising this system so...
7364121 Methods and systems for automatically controlling aircraft takeoff rolls  
Methods and systems for automatically controlling aircraft takeoff rolls. A method in accordance with one embodiment of the invention includes receiving an indication of a target takeoff roll path...
7354022 Device for monitoring tiltable flaps on aircraft wings  
A device for monitoring tiltable flaps on aircraft wings including rotary sensors at the rotary axis of the flap and associated with each actuating element. A rotation sensor is connected to the...
H002206 Tactile side-slip corrective yaw control for aircraft  
Side-slip of an aircraft during flight is detected through a pair of pressure sensors fixedly mounted on opposite lateral sides of the aircraft fuselage. Pressure measurement signals at said...
7260453 Checklist error mitigation system  
A checklist error mitigation system and method are provided to reduce the chance for error when completing a checklist. The system may receive a checklist step from an electronic or voice checklist...
7182296 Methods and apparatus for error-tolerant wrap-back ACE monitor  
Methods and apparatus are provided for more reliably transferring operational control for various aircraft flight control surfaces from a first sub-system to a second sub-system. The present...
7181020 Audio feedback regarding aircraft operation  
A method, system, and apparatus, for providing audio feedback regarding the operation of an aircraft. In one aspect, microphones are placed next to sound sources, which could be components of the...
7017861 Control system for actuators in an aircraft  
A control system for calculating control commands for actuators in an aircraft, wherein the control commands are calculated by computers distributed in the craft in dependence on input signals...
6993420 Method for monitoring a plurality of systems of an aircraft including displaying tasks already performed  
A method for monitoring a plurality of systems of an aircraft including the steps of monitoring the systems and for detecting a failure of at least one of the systems, displaying information output...
6922625 Jet engine control and protection system and method  
A highly reliable, multi-channel control, monitoring, and protection system includes at least three processors in each of the redundant channels, a main processor, and first and second monitor...
6912453 Device for monitoring a plurality of systems of an aircraft including a display displaying tasks already performed  
A device for monitoring a plurality of systems of an aircraft including a monitoring unit configured to monitor the systems and to detect a failure of at least one of the systems, a display...
6905091 System and method for controlling the acoustic signature of a device  
A system receives information regarding current flight conditions of a device such as an aircraft and determines the acoustic level of the sonic boom and/or other noise generated by the device...
6860452 Aircraft flight surface control system  
A distributed control system is provided where the controllers are split into two dissimilar groups and flight control responsibility is further allocated within each group such that one entire...
6816823 Process for designing flight controllers  
Process for designing flight controllers, in which first for the rigid airplane and then for the elastic airplane the damping and the phase delay for each excitation frequency is determined, and...
6793176 Automatic control of air vehicle during catapult launch  
A control system and method for automatic control of an air vehicle during catapult launch includes a first pitch axis partition that includes an altitude hold control loop and a vertical rate...
6793173 Automatic control device for a helicopter and automatic control system comprising such a device  
A device for the automatic control of a helicopter may include two objective algorithms associated with the collective axis, each of these algorithms automatically determining a command for...
6778884 System and method for generating consolidated gas turbine control tables  
A method for generating a power setting parameter table. The method includes the steps of generating an index from a plurality of first and second inputs and determining a power setting parameter...
6721682 Aerodynamic prediction using semiempirical prediction techniques and methods therefor  
An improved aeroprediction code (APC) allows aerodynamics to be predicted for Mach numbers up to 20 for configurations with flares. Moreover, the improved APC advantageously extends the static...
6666400 Network hub for a reconfigurable data network having physical transmission media  
A data network includes a plurality of network devices spaced apart from one another and distributed at multiple locations, a plurality of cables each coupled to a respective one of said plurality...
6651930 Process and control system for an aircraft control surface actuated by multiple hydraulic jacks and with modular power  
Control system for a control surface ( 100 ) of an aircraft comprising at least one actuator ( 102, 104 ) of the control surface, connected to a hydraulic circuit and equipped with at least two...
6622972 Method and system for in-flight fault monitoring of flight control actuators  
A method and system for detecting in-flight fault characteristics of flight control actuators is provided. Commands are sequentially sent to sets of actuators during flight in a manner that is...
6592071 Flight control system for a hybrid aircraft in the lift axis  
A flight control system includes a lift control algorithm which selectively communicates with the pitch command of the flight system control algorithm. The lift control algorithm selects the proper...
6578794 Methods and systems for jet engine overthrust protection  
A method for sensing and reacting to jet engine fan speed in excess of a fan speed computed from an aircraft throttle input is disclosed. Engine fan speeds are detected by adding test conditions to...
6572376 Avionics maintenance training device  
An avionics maintenance training device to train cognitive and psychomotor skills is disclosed. The training device is a physical mock-up of an actual aircraft's cabin assembly. The avionics...
6549829 Skipping filter for inertially augmented landing system  
The present method and apparatus consists of storing past values of estimated IRU error and using these past values to update the coasting filter when switching from GPS to inertial mode. Through...
6527225 Method for performing an automated category a takeoff  
A method for automating a takeoff maneuver for an aircraft, comprising the steps of generating a takeoff profile comprising a takeoff point, a flight path, and a takeoff decision point (TDP),...
6483436 Method and apparatus for sensing skews and disconnects of adjacent movable components  
A sensor detects skewed adjacent movable component. The sensor may be used to detect harmful skews of aircraft control surfaces, such as slats or flaps on aircraft wings, which may be caused by an...
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...
6416017 System and method for compensating structural vibrations of an aircraft caused by outside disturbances  
Method for compensating structural vibrations of an aircraft caused by wind blasts and buffeting in an aircraft in flight includes the steps of: detecting the structural vibrations by measurement...
6386485 Arrangement and method for regulating the steering force in a mechanical steering system for an aircraft  
The present invention relates to an arrangement and a method in a mechanical control system of an aircraft. From the cockpit of the aircraft control surfaces ( 1 ) of the aircraft can be acted upon...
6389335 Fault tolerant automatic control system utilizing analytic redundancy  
Method and apparatus for a fault tolerant automatic control system for a dynamic device having a sensor and a predetermined control algorithm include structure and steps for receiving a status...
6367741 Flight control system for a rotary-wing aircraft, particularly for a helicopter  
Flight control system for a rotary-wing aircraft, particularly for a helicopter. The flight control system comprises at least one flight control (LCo, MCy, Pal), first commands being...
6299108 Method and apparatus for detecting skew and asymmetry of an airplane flap  
An accurate and compact flap skew detection system that operates independent of the flap-drive system comprises, in a preferred embodiment, three major elements; a rotary position sensor located on...
6273371 Method for interfacing a pilot with the aerodynamic state of the surfaces of an aircraft and body interface to carry out this method  
Method, apparatus and sensors for directly interfacing a pilot (1) with the aerodynamic state of the surfaces of an aircraft, in particular allowing the direct sensorization of the conditions of...
6273370 Method and system for estimation and correction of angle-of-attack and sideslip angle from acceleration measurements  
A method and system is disclosed for using inertial sensors in an Inertial Navigation System (INS) to obtain analytic estimates of angle-of-attack ( α) and sideslip angle ( α). The inertial...
6257529 Servo actuator apparatus and aircraft control apparatus  
A servo actuator apparatus has: an actuator which relatively displaces an operation unit on the basis of an input signal E1; a position sensor which detects a relative position of the operation...
6244540 Method of calculating oxygen required and system for monitoring oxygen supply and/or calculating flight level after emergency cabin decompression  
A system useable in a jet aircraft having installed therein a pressurized oxygen supply which feeds oxygen into the interior of the plane when it flies at high cabin altitudes, the system...
6181989 Aircraft attitude sensor and feedback control system  
This invention is an aircraft orientation system that locates the earth's horizon, in order to determine the aircraft's attitude in the pitch and roll axes. The invention uses infrared sensors on...
6181987 Method of assistance in the piloting of an aerodyne  
The disclosed method is implemented by a system aboard an aerodyne comprising a processor, a terminal and memories in which there are stored all the information necessary for the carrying out of a...
6070829 Flight control system for rotary-wing aircraft, especially for a helicopter  
A flight control limiting system for a rotary-wing aircraft which generates servo-commands for at least one of a main rotor and a tail rotor. A set of first commands represents the position of at...
6059225 Flight control device for an aircraft, in particular a helicopter  
A flight control device for an aircraft is provided with a control unit OP and a plurality of N instruction generating systems, each of which generates a first command instruction for the control...
6061611 Closed-form integrator for the quaternion (euler angle) kinematics equations  
The invention is embodied in a method of integrating kinematics equations for updating a set of vehicle attitude angles of a vehicle using 3-dimensional angular velocities of the vehicle, which...
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...
6012675 Aircraft system monitoring air humidity to locate updrafts  
An aircraft system intended for gliders and low power-to-weight aircraft, to aid the pilot in locating updrafts associated with the buoyancy of humid air in the convective layer of the atmosphere,...
5951607 Autonomous craft controller system for landing craft air cushioned vehicle  
An autonomous craft controller system for automated control of operation of landing craft air-cushioned vehicle includes a command processor, a bow thruster controller, a prop pitch controller, and...
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