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8185261 Systems and methods for attitude propagation for a slewing angular rate vector  
Computer-based systems and methods for determining attitude of a moveable object. Attitude is determined by a transformation matrix {right arrow over (U)} from a body coordinate frame of the...
8165733 Stall, buffeting, low speed and high attitude protection system  
A flight control system moves elevators according to a pilot command summed with an automatic command. The flight control system monitors a set of flight parameters to determine if the flight...
8121746 Method and a device for monitoring the minimum flying altitude of an aircraft  
The present invention relates to a method and a device for monitoring the minimum flying altitude of an aircraft. The method comprises a phase for calculating a vertical flight profile describing...
8082070 Methods and systems for displaying assistance messages to aircraft operators  
Methods and systems for displaying assistance messages to aircraft operators are disclosed. A method in accordance with one embodiment includes receiving an input from an aircraft operator at an...
8077055 Method and device for filtering windshears alarms for an aircraft  
Method, device and item of equipment for filtering alarms originating from a windshear detection system embedded in an aircraft being able to emit an alarm. The aircraft has at least one sensor...
8014910 Assisted take-off method for aircraft  
A reference value is arbitrarily selected from a range of possible aircraft rotation speeds. A position of a trimmable horizontal stabilizer is angled in accordance with a centering of the...
7987025 Stores dependent angle of attack feedback  
A method for adjusting angle of attack feedback gain based characteristics and position of mounted stores, and a control system using the method.
7962255 System and method for estimating inertial acceleration bias errors  
A method for estimating inertial acceleration bias errors including obtaining uncorrected acceleration measurements on board a vehicle; obtaining independent position and independent velocity data...
7908044 Compound aircraft control system and method  
The Invention is a control system for a compound aircraft. A compound aircraft has features of both a helicopter and a fixed wing aircraft and provides redundant control options. The control system...
7769502 Survivability/attack planning system  
A system for suggesting a course of action for a vehicle engaged in a situation includes a portion for identifying condition data that corresponds to conditions sensed from the situation. The...
7702427 Air traffic management evaluation tool  
Method and system for evaluating and implementing air traffic management tools and approaches for managing and avoiding an air traffic incident before the incident occurs. The invention provides...
7702429 Electric flight control system for aircraft elevators  
The invention relates to an electric flight control system for aircraft elevators. According to the invention, the flight control system can be controlled in terms of load factor or rate of pitch....
7571878 Method and a calculating unit for calculation of a recovery flight path  
A method for calculating a flight path avoiding a collision with the ground when an aircraft dives towards the ground. The method includes receiving signals including information of a dive angle of...
7539561 Autonomous control system apparatus and program for a small, unmanned helicopter  
An objective of the invention, focusing on these issues involved in the use of a small, hobby-type, unmanned helicopter, is to develop an autonomous control system comprising autonomous control...
7406369 Ground effects compensated angle of attack command system and method  
A take off ground effects compensated angle of attack system includes a radio altimeter and/or timer, a pitch angle system and a flight control computer. The radio altimeter generates a signal...
7379839 Multi-function air data probes employing neural networks for determining local air data parameters  
An air data sensing probe or MFP includes a barrel having multiple pressure sensing ports for sensing multiple pressures. Instrumentation coupled to the pressure sensing ports provides electrical...
7337045 Airborne windshear detection and warning system  
An airborne windshear detection and warning system includes a pitot tube for detecting the airspeed of an aircraft and an angle of attack vane for detecting an aircraft's angle of attack. Signals...
7313404 Vehicular navigation based on site specific sensor quality data  
A method and system for determining a location of a vehicle, the method comprises determining reception location data within a first cell of a work area for a vehicle. A reception quality estimator...
7263414 Method and device for controlling the attitude of an aircraft  
A method and device for controlling the attitude of an aircraft may employ spoilers that are arranged on the wings of the aircraft and whose respective angular positions can be adjusted by...
7184801 Mobile application builder  
A method and system which allow a user to define and edit workflow applications for a mobile device, screens associated with the applications, and workflow process is described. The states or...
7089090 Flight control indicator determining the maximum slope for the flight control of an aircraft by terrain following  
The flight control indicator may include a set of information sources, a computation unit connected to said set of information sources, and a head-up display device. The computation unit...
7043345 System and method with adaptive angle-of-attack autopilot  
A control system includes a rate-damping loop that uses a calculated angle-of attack error to non-linearly scale a rate-feedback signal so that at lower angle-of attack (AOA) error values, an...
6985091 Electronic flight instrument displays  
The present invention is directed to novel primary flight displays, moving map displays and engine parameter displays for aircraft cockpits. These displays process data gathered from various...
6937166 Process and device for aiding the piloting of an aircraft  
The device (1) for aiding piloting comprises means (2) for determining a speed vector of the aircraft, means of depiction (4) for presenting on a display screen (6) a first characteristic sign...
6928341 Computational air data system for angle-of-attack and angle-of-sideslip  
A computational air data method and system for estimating angle-of-attack and angle-of-sideslip of an aircraft utilizing a detailed aerodynamic model of the aircraft, extended Kalman filters,...
6714866 Methods and apparatus for installation alignment of equipment  
A method for installation alignment of an inertial reference unit (IRU) with vehicle axes when the IRU is installed within the vehicle is provided. The vehicle axes include roll, pitch, and yaw...
6651004 Guidance system  
A method and apparatus for directing a pursuing vehicle, such as a torpedo, on an intercept trajectory from a launching vehicle to a target vehicle with evasion capabilities. The guidance system...
6594559 Iterative method of aircraft sideslip compensation for multi-function probe air data systems  
In an iterative method of determining aircraft flight data parameters using first and second multi-function probes, an assumed value of a first aircraft parameter is defined to be equal to an...
6567727 Flight control system  
A flight control system automatically recognizes safety-critical flight conditions and transmits timely guidance to the pilot for correcting such flight conditions. The flight control system...
6510385 Navigation apparatus, navigation method, and information recording medium in which program for navigation is computer-readably recorded  
A navigation apparatus which can improve convenience of navigation by starting assisting of the movement without delay by inferring a predetermined route. This navigation apparatus includes a...
6452542 Integrated flight management system  
A smart probe assembly for an aircraft includes pressure sensing ports for sensing pressures indicating angle of attack, static pressure and pitot pressure, a circuit housing mounted on said probe...
6366835 Height estimating apparatus  
Apparatus for estimating a first height (1) of a vehicle (2) above a first reference surface (3), including a system (4) for determining position, velocity and attitude incorporating at least one...
6341247 Adaptive method to control and optimize aircraft performance  
A measurement-based method to control and optimize the performance of an airborne vehicle. The stability and control of the vehicle is modified to induce a response in the airborne vehicle as...
6325333 Aircraft pitch-axis stability and command augmentation system  
A bias correction system for use in a neutrally-stable aircraft having a control column and a pitch control system is provided. The position of the control column is generally represented by a...
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 sensors c...
6253166 Stable algorithm for estimating airdata from flush surface pressure measurements  
An airdata estimation and evaluation system and method, including a stable algorithm for estimating airdata from nonintrusive surface pressure measurements. The airdata estimation and evaluation...
6246929 Enhanced stall and recovery control system  
An autopilot controller, for controlling a vehicle traveling in a fluid medium, designed for controlling the vehicle in any one of pre stall, stall and post stall regions. The autopilot controller...
6131055 Aircraft non-normalized angle-of-attack indicating system  
The present invention is directed to a non-normalized aircraft angle-of-attack indicating system. An angle-of-attack vane produces a signal α' indicative of raw aircraft angle-of-attack. A ...
6073065 Method for detecting a bank angle experienced by a moving vehicle  
A method for detecting a bank angle experienced by a motor vehicle (10) is disclosed. Three estimates of the vehicle bank angle, γa, γω and γν are determined from separate data and are then used...
6073084 Process and device for verifying the consistency of the measurements from an angle-of-attack probe  
A process and a device for verifying the consistency of the measurements made by an angle-of-attack probe (2) mounted on an aircraft. The device (1) includes:first system (3) for computing a first...
5988562 System and method for determining the angular orientation of a body moving in object space  
A system and method for determining the angular orientation of a body moving in object space. The invention is usable to detect and identify the angular orientation of the body relative to the...
5935177 Pilot-induced oscillation detection and compensation apparatus and method  
The apparatus of this invention includes a pilot-induced oscillation (PIO) detector, a PIO compensator and a pilot input modifier. The PIO detector is coupled to receive aircraft state signal...
5852787 Vehicle suspension control  
Methods are provided for improving steering stability in a vehicle in which steering stability is a function of tire deflection. In one embodiment, a determination is made whether steering...
5549260 Active control device for aircraft tail buffet alleviation  
A rotatable slotted cylinder (RSC), partially embedded within the contours of a tail surface, such as an aircraft tail airfoil, serves as a force-producing element in a closed-loop active control...
5457630 System for onboard lift analysis and apparatus therefor  
A method and apparatus for measuring the lift generated by airfoils of an aircraft. This real-time analysis is accomplished by measuring a differential pressure between the upper and lower lift...
5089968 Ground effects compensated real time aircraft body angle of attack estimation  
Disclosed is a method of and an arrangement for generating a ground effects compensated aircraft body angle of attack signal. The disclosed method includes converting an aircraft pitch rate...
5083279 Canard based high angle of attack air data sensor  
A canard based air speed, angle of attack and sideslip measurement system consisting of canard mounted pressure transducers. The canard includes a leading edge, a side surface, a bottom surface and...
5025378 Horizontal stabilizer motion detector  
The horizontal stabilizer position is provided to the automatic flight control system software where it is passed through a second order Chebychev motion filter to provide horizontal stabilizer...
4924401 Aircraft ground collision avoidance and autorecovery systems device  
The invention comprises an aircraft ground collision avoidance system which utilizes a flight control computer for monitoring aircraft flight states and calculating preferred aircraft flyup...
4910513 Apparatus and methods for generating a stall warning margin on an aircraft attitude indicator display  
A pitch limit symbol is generated at an aircraft attitude indicator which provides a pilot with display of a stall warning angle of attack margin which is referenced to an airplane symbol on the...
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