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7003383 Flight management system using holding pattern entry algorithms  
The present invention provides a set of holding pattern entry algorithms used to define flight segments for entry into holding patterns. These geometries preferably describe the specific location...
6995688 Method and apparatus for thwarting attempts to hijack aircraft and for responding to other aircraft emergencies  
Apparatus and method are provided for detecting and responding to aircraft emergencies and, in particular, thwarting attempts to hijack an aircraft including the storage in aircraft computer memory...
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...
6993419 Process and device for detecting the failure of a pressure sensor of an air data system of an aircraft  
Detection of the failure of a pressure sensor of an air data system of an aircraft having at least two pressure sensors includes measuring first and second pressure values with the aid of the two...
6986486 Aircraft control system  
This invention control system having: means ( 12 ) for detecting an irregularity in aircraft handling during flight; means ( 18 ) for causing temporarily a rigid body excitation in at least a...
6980104 Aircraft with security alarm system  
A passenger aircraft with a security alarm system includes an aircraft fuselage divided into a cockpit and a passenger cabin. One or more portable transmitter units carried by cabin crew members or...
6975247 Entity catastrophic security system and method  
An entity catastrophic security system is provided to prevent criminal, human error or major entity failures from causing major catastrophic results. The system employs entity danger signal...
6970105 Passenger control system during a plane flying  
A passenger control system during a plane flying is disclosed, which is adapted to keep under checking all the passengers, so as to prevent and in case avoid any action such as hijackments,...
6970773 Apparatus and method for reducing induced drag on aircraft and other vehicles  
A method and apparatus for varying the washout of a wing such that induced drag is minimized during a flight. The washout is varied pursuant to an optimized twist distribution that depends on the...
6967830 Expansion module and network for avionic devices  
An apparatus and network, each including at least one expansion module, and an associated method are provided. The expansion module can be disposed between an aircraft connector and an avionic...
6965771 Method for selecting applications that can be activated via a civil aeronautical communication network  
It is proposed, for better efficacity of the ATN aeronautical telecommunication network, that the requests for logons through the ATN network originating from non-ATC applications be subjected to a...
6963292 System and method for reporting emergencies from an aircraft  
A system and method is provided for passenger reporting of emergencies aboard an aircraft. An exemplary aircraft security system may have a panic device accessible to and activated by a passenger...
6963818 Mobile speedometer system and associated methods  
The invention detects loft time and/or speed of a vehicle and/or person during activities of moving and jumping. A loft sensor detects leaving the ground and returning to the ground. A...
6954686 Method of tuning a vibration absorber  
A method of tuning a vibration absorber on a driving frequency, in which the absorber includes a damper block secured to a support having one end fixedly mounted in an orifice, includes the steps...
6952630 Method and apparatus for facilitating ease of viewing and interpretation of data concurrently presented to the flight crew on a multifunction flat panel display in an aircraft  
A flat panel display for presenting graphical renderings of aircraft flight, operation and system status data to an aircraft pilot renders the data at various predetermined brightness levels...
6948681 Automated cargo transportation system  
A modular automated air transport system comprising an unmanned autonomous aircraft having a selectively detachable control systems portion and a structural air frame portion, wherein the...
6941850 Self-contained airborne smart weapon umbilical control cable  
An umbilical cable for delivering electrical signals between an aircraft and a smart weapon carried by the aircraft. The umbilical cable includes cabling comprising a plurality of conductive wires,...
6941191 Robot intelligence in natural environments  
A method for automatic, decentralized coordination of the movement paths of mobile robots in order to prevent collisions and to detect and resolve mutual blockings. According to the method, a robot...
6941204 System and method for diagnosing aircraft components for maintenance purposes  
Aircraft maintenance and repair work is facilitated, especially for a commercial aircraft, by a diagnostic system and method, wherein an aircraft component or assembly of components is monitored by...
6934633 Helmet-mounted parachutist navigation system  
A parachutist navigation system includes a display attached to a side vision area of a parachutist's goggles, a navigation pod attached to the parachutist's helmet, and a remotely located...
6922618 System and method for kinematic consistency processing  
A system, method, and computer program product for analyzing flight test and FDR data that overcomes technical difficulties associated with traditional flight data analysis methods. The method...
6919808 Device for monitoring at least one pilot in a cockpit of an aircraft  
The device ( 1 ) comprises a means ( 2 ) comprising at least one means of sensory recognition ( 3, 4 ), for pre-flight automatic characterization of the pilot who is located at a control station in...
6917839 Surveillance system and method having an operating mode partitioned fault classification model  
A system and method which partitions a parameter estimation model, a fault detection model, and a fault classification model for a process surveillance scheme into two or more coordinated submodels...
6917860 Transmission, receipt, and presentation of vehicle specific environmental conditions and hazards information  
A method for transmitting environmental conditions information, which includes receiving at least some environmental conditions information, scaling the received information such that a scaled...
6913228 Aircraft with active center of gravity control  
A supersonic aircraft comprises a wing, a fuselage, a plurality of fuel tanks contained within the wing and/or fuselage, and a fuel transfer system communicatively coupled to the plurality of fuel...
6914542 Method and system for parking aircraft at an airport  
A method and system for parking aircraft at an airport terminal having a plurality of passenger loading bridges is disclosed. According to the invention, a parking space is defined at the terminal...
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...
6909948 Accelerometer configuration  
The present invention provides a system and method for using the external accelerometer in an aircraft engine configuration as a backup accelerometer, in the event the internally located production...
6907360 Closure measuring system  
A closure measuring system for measuring operable specifications of a door panel of an automotive vehicle. The closure measuring system includes a data sensing device adapted to be removably...
6907324 Instrument reference flight display system for horizon representation of direction to next waypoint  
The invention provides a primary flight display instrument in which a symbol—such as a small star or triangle—indicates the bearing to the current waypoint in the flight navigation plan. The...
6898469 Surveillance system and method having parameter estimation and operating mode partitioning  
A system and method for monitoring an apparatus or process asset including creating a process model comprised of a plurality of process submodels each correlative to at least one training data...
6898491 Process and device for automatically controlling the thrust of at least one engine of an aircraft during a phase of horizontal flight at stabilized speed  
Automatic control of the thrust of an aircraft engine may include: (1) calculating a first difference between a measured speed and a reference speed of an aircraft to determine an intermediate term...
6895327 Telematics process for helicopters  
The invention relates to a telematics method for helicopters. According to the inventive method, the use spectrum of helicopters which are provided with all-weather flight guidance and obstacle...
6895582 Method and apparatus for high assurance computing using virtual machines on general purpose computing resources  
A system and method for enhancing the integrity of an avionics system which uses a pair dissimilar general purpose microprocessors, each running a virtual machine, compiled for its respective...
6889124 Method and apparatus for reducing false taws warnings and navigating landing approaches  
A system for reducing nuisance alerts and warnings in a terrain awareness and warning system for an aircraft, including determining if the aircraft is within a predetermined geometric volume...
6889123 System and method for target tracking and navigation to a target  
A system, method and computer program product for performing automatic navigation of a first aircraft to a second aircraft is provided. The system includes a radar system, a processor, memory, and...
6885917 Enhanced flight control systems and methods for a jet powered tri-mode aircraft  
A method of stabilizing a jet-powered tri-mode aircraft as the aircraft travels in a helicopter mode, a compound mode, and a fixed-wing mode is disclosed. The method includes receiving a plurality...
6879886 Flight guidance system providing perspective flight guidance symbology  
A flight guidance system providing perspective flight guidance symbology using positioning and terrain information provides increased pilot situational awareness of an aircraft. The guidance system...
6879887 Low speed range indicator  
In an aircraft flight instrument display system having a display screen for displaying flight information, an airspeed indicator is displayed in a vertical tape format, and has a low speed range...
6879885 Rotor torque predictor  
A system is disclosed for determining the total torque required at the main and tail rotors of a helicopter for use in feed-forward rotor torque anticipation which includes a polynomial neural...
6876906 Graphical symbology for depicting traffic position, navigation uncertainty, and data quality on aircraft displays  
A method of communicating an uncertainty of a location of an object near an aircraft is disclosed. According to the method, a plurality of signals are received from positioning sources. Each of the...
6876905 Aircraft data transmission system for wireless communication of data between the aircraft and ground-based systems  
A device to enable automatic wireless communication with an aircraft after the aircraft has parked at a gate. A terminal cellular bridge (TCB) enables the retrieval of data from, and the sending of...
6873887 Rotor torque anticipator  
A system for performing feed-forward anticipation of rotor torque demand on a helicopter engine is disclosed which includes a flight control computer adapted and configured to predict the total...
6871123 System and method allowing for an integrated flight loads balancing process  
A system allowing for an integrated flight loads balancing process at one or more time instances of a flight maneuver of an aircraft includes a processor and a plurality of resources. Additionally,...
6868314 Unmanned aerial vehicle apparatus, system and method for retrieving data  
The present invention relates to a system for retrieving data from remote difficult to reach terrain, such as wilderness areas, etc. and in particular to a system comprised of one or more surface...
6863244 Mitigation of angular acceleration effects on optical sensor data  
A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and a memory structure for compensating for optical sensor data corrupted by angular acceleration is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of...
6865452 Quiet mode operation for cockpit weather displays  
An airborne computer is linked to a ground-based or satellite-based supplier of weather data that is geographically referenced. The computer retrieves the weather data on a regular cycle but does...
6862501 Method for producing 3D perspective view avionics terrain displays  
Methods for generating information for displaying terrain on an aircraft display system that significantly reduces the computation and data load for producing the terrain display. This is...
6859688 Data structures, and systems to configure avionic equipment with profile data  
Data structures and systems are provided for configuring avionic equipment with profile data. Profile data is defined, stored, and/or retrieved. The profile data is used to configure one or more...
6856864 Method and system for entering data within a flight plan entry field  
The present invention provides systems, apparatus and methods for entering data into a flight plan entry field which facilitates the display and editing of aircraft flight-plan data. In one...
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