Aeronautics inventions 07/06

20060163422 - Pseudo gps aided multiple projectile bistatic guidance: A guidance system for guiding each of several projectiles toward a moving target has a platform having a radar system for illuminating the target with a radar signal. Each projectile has a receiver for receiving the radar signal reflected from the target, a transponder for replying to Global Positioning System...

20060163423 - Single-axis fin deployment system: A missile has fins that rotate about a single axis to deploy from a stowed position to a deployed position. A foil longitudinal axis of each fin is angled relative to a shaft of the fin, such that a single-axis rotation of the shaft moves the foil from the stowed...

20060163424 - Aerostreamer flight kit: A modified gliding ring toy comprised of lightweight connecting spokes, a low friction center hub, rotating center pin, and a tether attached to a tailpiece and/or promotional banner in order to provide both an apparent visual cue to the gliding ring's approach and an alternative means of catching it over...

20060163425 - Aircraft inlet assembly for reducing auxiliary power unit noise: An aircraft inlet assembly is provided for damping noise from an auxiliary power unit (“APU”) of an aircraft having a tailcone including a sidewall with a first end and a second end, and an end wall coupled to the sidewall first end. The assembly includes a partition disposed within the...

20060163426 - Locking mechanisms: A locking mechanism for aircraft landing gear has a hook (3) displaceable into and out of engagement with the landing gear capture pin (1). A roller (45) on a latch arm (40) engages a part (36) of the hook (3) to prevent it moving from a position where the pin...

20060163427 - Landing gear strut damper, and gear with independent struts comprising same: A damper for an airplane landing gear leg comprises a main strut (11) and a rod piston (13) co-operating with the strut (11) to define a main chamber (15) and annular chamber (16) for hydraulic fluid, and presenting internally two adjacent chambers (19, 20) that are isolated from each other...

20060163428 - Flying sailboat: A vehicle adapted for airborne flight and waterborne sailing has a fuselage (20) with left and right wings (52, 54) that pivot independently about a respective longitudinal axis from a generally horizontal orientation for flight to a generally vertical orientation to provide wind-driven propulsion for sailing. Further, the wings (52,...

20060163430 - Attendant cabin display system: A system providing a graphical display of information on passengers and their baggage. The system includes a control data analysis equipment (CDAE) for compiling information from various sources. A display unit is located in the aircraft cabin and communicates with the CDAE. The system includes seat sensors which can detect...

20060163429 - Emergency light in a multilevel aeroplane: The invention relates to an aeroplane comprising several decks which are arranged above each other, for passengers, freight and/or crew members, also comprising at least one staircase connected to the decks. Said aeroplane is characterized in that the staircase is provided with photoluminescent markings which enable the staircase to be...

20060163431 - Cover skin for a variable-shape aerodynamic area: A cover skin for a variable-shape aerodynamic area, such as a wing structure, tail unit structure, control surface structure or flap structure is described. A cover skin is deformable in one direction without exhibiting substantial deformation in a transverse direction. A deformable framework structure is embedded in a layer of...

20060163432 - Multi-servicing and retractable bridge for an operational ground support system: A servicing bridge (14) for an airport (13) includes multiple servicing levels (82, 102). A bridge (81) includes one or more of the servicing levels (82, 102) and extends from a terminal of the airport (13). A ground support service sub-system is coupled to the servicing levels (82, 102) and...

20060163433 - Lighter than air kite: An inflatable lighter than air kite that utilizes integrated negatively buoyant airfoils to provide positive orientation and aerodynamics, which automatically rights itself and remains aloft regardless of the presence of wind or manual control....

20060163434 - Spacecraft for interplanetary/lunar travel: A self-propelled spacecraft may provide an artificial gravity environment for interplanetary and/or lunar travel. The spacecraft may be useful not only for interplanetary and/or lunar mission travel, but also for carrying supplies to space habitats, such as lunar habitats, and also for general exploration of space, including study of distant...

20060163435 - Control surface assemblies with torque tube base: Control surface assemblies having a torque tube base are disclosed. In one embodiment, a control surface assembly includes a control surface portion and a base portion. The base portion has a hollow, shell-like base portion coupled to a first end portion of the control surface portion, and is adapted to...

20060157613 - Supersonic aircraft with active lift distribution control for reducing sonic boom: Methods and systems for actively reducing sonic boom in commercial supersonic aircraft and other supersonic aircraft are described herein. A method for operating an aircraft in accordance with one aspect of the invention includes configuring at least one lift control device to produce a first streamwise lift distribution, and flying...

20060157614 - Wing for a compound helicopter: A wing (11) for a compound helicopter having a lifting rotor comprises a plurality of wing elements (12) of which one wing element is rotatably mounted and in one position thereof the wing elements form a single continuous aerofoil. In a preferred embodiment the wing comprises a plurality of rotatably...

20060157615 - Control system for a flying vehicle: In one embodiment of the present invention there is described a vehicle having a propeller mechanism for propelling the vehicle in a horizontal direction. The vehicle includes a transmitter positioned on the bottom of the vehicle for transmitting a signal from the vehicle downwardly away from the vehicle. A receiver...

20060157616 - Tandem powered power tilting aircraft - ja: An aircraft with a long body 1 which has a forward end 2 and an aft end 3, which is able to achieve vertical take-off by means of a tiltable rotor and blade assembly 4 at the forward part of the aircraft and a tiltable turbojet 19 at the rear...

20060157617 - Airship having a multiple-lobed hull: A non-rigid airship has a hull with a plurality of lobes formed therein. The lobes decrease the radius of curvature of the hull, thereby reducing the stress on the hull due to the pressurized lifting gas contained therein. The reduced stress allows the hull to be constructed from a lighter...

20060157618 - Blade gearing structure of air duct of vehicles: A blade gearing structure of a vehicle air duct includes a plurality of vertical blades installed in a discharge port of a vehicle instrument panel and cooperating with each other by being connected to each other at regular intervals by a link, a plurality of horizontal blades installed outside the...

20060157619 - Aircraft alerting system: A method and system for alerting a cockpit crew of terrorist activity in a cabin of an aircraft. The system includes a plurality of fobs worn by flight attendants. The system also includes an antenna sending unit (ASU) located within the cabin and a cockpit display unit (CDU) located in...

20060157620 - Baggage compartment in passenger transport system: A baggage compartment includes a housing that has a baggage accommodation space, a hinged cover, a latching mechanism, an operating element and a covering element. By moving the hinged cover, the baggage accommodation space may be selectively made accessible or inaccessible. The latching mechanism may be partly placed on the...

20060157621 - Hatch-actuating mechanism, particularly for an aircraft landing gear: b

20060157622 - Multi-purpose inflatable kite: A multi-purpose inflatable kite is presented that can be used as both a water flotation device and as an inflatable flyable kite. The multi-purpose inflatable kite includes a body formed of a gas-impervious material with a gas-tight fillable interior chamber. An openable aperture is connected with the body to enable...

20060157623 - Wing, in particular airfoil of an aircraft, with a variable profile shape: A wing, in particular a airfoil of an aircraft, with a variable profile shape, which wing comprises a first skin and a second skin and a supporting structure, arranged between the first and the second skin, which supporting structure in the direction of the wing depth extends between a first...

20060151664 - Power transmission device: The present invention discloses a power transmission device, including a revolution shaft, a power transmission frame wheel rotatably and coaxially coupled to the revolution shaft, a plurality of spinning shaft symmetrically provided at outside edges of the power transmission frame. A plural of blades rotatably and coaxially coupled to respective...

20060151665 - Torsionally de-coupled engine mount system: A torsionally de-coupled engine mount system (13) for use in tilt rotor aircraft (11) applications is disclosed, in which an engine is mounted at its forward end to a prop rotor gear box by means of a forward mount (303) that is a simple adapter fitting, and at its aft...

20060151666 - Vertical take-off and landing (vtol) aircraft with distributed thrust and control: An aircraft having a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) propulsion system. The aircraft includes a fuselage, the VTOL propulsion system, at least one forward thruster, a power source used for both the VTOL propulsion system and forward thruster, fore and aft wings and a plurality of spars attached to and...

20060151667 - Methods and apparatuses for launching unmanned aircraft, including methods and apparatuses for transmitting forces to the aircraft during launch: Methods and apparatuses for launching unmanned aircraft and other flight devices or projectiles are described. In one embodiment, the aircraft can be launched from an apparatus that includes an extendable boom. A launch carriage is positioned on a launch guide structure of the boom and carries the aircraft during takeoff....

20060151668 - Pivot mechanism for quick installation of stowage bins or rotating items: A pivot assembly is provided including a first pivot boss having an engagement extension and a first race element having a central race socket. A central engagement bushing is rotatably secured within the central race socket and includes an engagement chamber adapted to removably engage the engagement extension. The central...

20060151669 - Increasing the performance of aircraft on-board inert gas generating systems by turbocharging: A modular, on-board, inert gas generating system for aircraft is disclosed in which main components such as a heat exchanger, filter, air separation module, and turbocharger are provided in a modular unit sized to provide a variable flow of nitrogen-enriched air to the aircraft spaces to be inerted. For different...

20060151670 - Methods and systems for controlling flammability control systems in aircraft and other vehicles: Methods and systems for controlling fuel tank flammability control systems are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a system for use with an aircraft or other vehicle includes a flammability control system and a controller operably coupled to the flammability control system. The flammability control system can be configured to control...

20060151671 - Actuator arm for use in a spacecraft: An actuator arm for use in a spacecraft includes a base unit, a plurality of connection tapes, and an action element connected to the base unit using the plurality of connection tapes....

20060144991 - Swept-wing box-type aircraft with high fligh static stability: Swept-wing box-type aircraft comprising a fuselage and a lifting system formed by two substantially horizontal wings. One of the wings has a positive sweep angle, while the other has a negative sweep angle, the wings lying in planes spaced apart from one another and joined by two vertical wings extending...

20060144992 - Transformable fluid foil with pivoting spars: An adjustable fluid foil. The fluid foil includes a foil support structure having one more spars. A first mechanism facilitates mounting the one or more spars to one or more supports. The one or more spars are independently controllable and form a frame that is covered with a deformable skin....

20060144993 - Hydraulic damper for shimmy of aircraft landing gear: A hydraulic system for steering an aircraft while taxiing selectively applies pressurized fluid to different ports of a hydraulic motor to turn a landing gear wheel either left or right. Shimmy of the landing gear attached to the wheel is dampened by a device that is coupled across the hydraulic...

20060144994 - Homeostatic flying hovercraft: A homeostatic flying hovercraft preferably utilizes at least two pairs of counter-rotating ducted fans to generate lift like a hovercraft and utilizes a homeostatic hover control system to create a flying craft that is easily controlled. The homeostatic hover control system provides true homeostasis of the craft with a true...

20060144996 - Apparatus for the adjustment of horizontal stabilizers for aircraft: The present disclosure related to an apparatus for the adjustment of horizontal stabilizers for aircraft in relation to the aircraft axis with mechanical power transmission from two drives to the horizontal stabilizer. In accordance with the present disclosure, two differential transmissions coupled via a connection shaft drive the horizontal stabilizer...

20060144995 - Remotely controlled model airplane having deflectable centrally biased control surface: A remotely controlled model airplane includes a receiver responsive to signals from a transmitter to control the direction of flight of the model airplane. The receiver, powered by a battery, demodulates the signal transmitted by the transmitter to selectively energize an electrical coil to generate a magnetic field of a...

20060144997 - Method and system for health monitoring of aircraft landing gear: The invention relates to a new method and system for health monitoring of aircraft landing gear. The system includes sensors that are attached to the landing gear structure and equipment (e.g., one or more of brakes, tires, hydraulics, electrical systems and switches) and analyzed to report and alert personnel such...

20060144998 - Device for facilitating the lowering of a landing gear by gravity: Device for facilitating the lowering of a landing gear by gravity, comprising at least on roller device (4) positioned on at least one closing panel (2) of the hatch for the landing gear in a contact area with the tire (1a) of the landing gear of an aircraft (7) on...

20060144999 - System, apparatus and method to improve the aerodynamics of a floatplane: The aerodynamics of a floatplane can be improved by providing a wing suitable for mounting on a spreader bar between floats of the floatplane, mounting said wing on the spreader bar between the floats of a floatplane, and preventing the wing from rotating around the spreader bar during flight operations....

20060145000 - Multi-fuselage aircraft: An aircraft is suitable for ground and water take-offs and landings. The aircraft includes at least two fuselages spaced apart from each other. Each fuselage acts as a pontoon to permit landing and take-off from water....

20060145001 - Fan cowl door elimination: A nacelle for housing an aircraft jet engine. The jet engine has a fan case and a portion disposed downstream of the fan case relative to a direction of airflow through the jet engine. The nacelle comprises an inlet for receiving airflow, a fan cowl panel for covering a forward...

20060145002 - Modular galley for an aircraft or train as well as wall and modular for such a galley and aircraft or train equipped therewith: The invention relates to a modular galley for an aircraft or train. The modular galley has a wall provided with a multiplicity of guides running in the vertical direction with undercuts as well as a multiplicity of essentially block-shaped modules. The modules have runners on the rear that can be...

20060145005 - Acoustic absorption blanket mounting system for an aircraft cabin: An acoustic absorption blanket mounting system includes a blanket mounting strip (BMS) attached to a fastener strip mounted to an airframe member. The BMS is generally of a shape to removably capture a sound proofing blanket between opposed pair of wings. At least one wing of the pair of...

20060145006 - Acoustic absorption system for an aircraft airframe: An acoustic absorption system fills each frame void within an airframe section with a close fitting foam portion. A mass barrier layer is adhered over the foam portions and to a multitude of frame members. The mass barrier layer is a contiguous layer adhered across the multitude of frame members...

20060145004 - Acoustic absorption system for an aircraft interior trim panel system: An acoustic absorption trim panel includes a composite core, a decoupler layer, and a mass barrier layer. By ensuring that the mass barrier layer remains limp in a limp area but in contact with the composite core through the decoupling layer, damping greater than that imparted in conventional construction is...

20060145007 - Flight deck security pocket door system: A security pocket door traverses within a security bulkhead wall that defines a pocket, within which the pocket door traverses, and a through passage to permit people, carts and luggage to pass. The pocket door has an upper door track mechanism and a lower door track mechanism that engages a...

20060145003 - Storage device for emergency equipment: A storage device (50) for emergency equipment (2, 17, 19) for aircraft flight crew. The storage device (50) is adapted so that the emergency equipment (2, 17, 19) in the stored position presents at least one grip surface (21) that the user can take hold of in one hand in...

20060145008 - Airplane surface protection film kits: Described herein is a computer design-aided shield for exposed surfaces on aircraft, a method for manufacture, and kits derived from collections of shields, each kit appropriate for use on a single aircraft type. The shield is contemplated for first use on general and corporate aviation aircraft. The kits are designed...

20060145009 - Penetration- and fire-resistant fabric materials and structures: A ballistic and/or fire barrier for protecting objects in an interior of a vehicle due to projectile penetration and/or fire includes one or more layers of high strength fabric positioned towards an outer shell of the vehicle. The high strength fabric is substantially fixedly or fixedly positioned with respect to...

20060145010 - Airplane wing, method for manufacturing an airplane wing and use of a welding process for welding a wing spar: An airplane wing has a lower wing cover, an upper wing cover and a wing spar. A first end portion of the wing spar is welded to the lower wing cover and/or a second end portion of the wing spar is welded to the upper wing cover....

20060145011 - Method and apparatus for treating fuel to temporarily reduce its combustibility: A method and apparatus are disclosed for treating fuel to temporarily reduce its combustibility, and thereafter restore its combustibility. As used in an aircraft, the method comprises the following steps: (a) treating aircraft engine fuel to substantially reduce its combustibility in open air; (b) carrying the treated fuel in a...

20060145012 - Reinforced cover for gaps in an aerodynamic contour: Reinforced cover for gaps in an aerodynamic contour of a vehicle, with a first attachment section la attachable to a structural element 2, 5 of the vehicle 11, on a first axial plane I; a second elastic section 1c which covers a gap 3 which is located between a fixed...

20060145013 - Sealing device for a flap track in a belly fairing of an aircraft for a flap-actuating shaft: Sealing device for the flap track for the flap-actuating shaft, in the belly fairing of an aircraft, with a top hollow body 1 and a bottom hollow body 7 which are flexibly compressible, each comprising at least one interior chamber 2, 8 with open sides 2a, 2b, a wall 3,...

20060145014 - Magnetic closing method for parachutes: A fastening system particularly suited for removably securing a first component of a parachute system to a second component. The fastening system includes a first and at least a second magnetic element secured to the first and second components of the parachute system. At least the first magnetic element is...

20060145015 - Non-pyrotechnic parachute loop cutter: A release device, and in particular a release device for use in parachute systems in place of pyrotechnic cutters. The inventive systems utilize a severable structural member of low melting point, high strength polymer that is severed by introducing a heat defect. The member is typically a ultra high molecular...

20060145016 - Mating of spacecraft components using shape memory materials: A method and apparatus is provided for mating (e.g., structurally and sealingly securing) two components of a spacecraft to one another. The apparatus and method may include a first spacecraft component having a first mating surface, a second spacecraft component having a second mating surface adapted to align with the...

20060145017 - Optimized land mobile satellite system for north american coverage: A constellation, including a plurality of spacecraft, including a first, second and third spacecraft, each of the plurality of spacecraft including a broadcast capability, and each of the plurality of spacecraft in its own approximately 24-hour orbit. Each of the orbits has a substantially teardrop-shaped or oval-shaped ground track, is...

20060145018 - Unitized hybrid rocket system: The hybrid rocket system of this invention is characterized by use of an oxidizer tank having a cylindrical midsection surrounded by a skirt and bonded thereto by a layer of elastomeric adhesive. The skirt outer surface is in turn adhesively secured to a spacecraft inner surface. An elongated solid-fuel motor...

20060145019 - Triangular spacecraft: A spacecraft having a triangular hull with vertical electrostatic line charges on each corner that produce a horizontal electric field parallel to the sides of the hull. This field, interacting with a plane wave emitted by antennas on the side of the hull, generates a force per volume combining both...

20060145020 - Atmospheric entry thermal protection system: A reusable system for reliably protecting a spacecraft from atmospheric entry heating is described. It includes a transpiration medium reservoir, apparatus for injecting transpiration medium through portions of the heat shield of the spacecraft, and a control system configured to inject a cleaning medium during the early portion of the...

20060145021 - Composite shell spacecraft seat: A two-part seat (10) providing full body support that is specific for each crew member (30) on an individual basis. The two-part construction for the seat (10) can accommodate many sizes and shapes for crewmembers (30) because it is reconfigurable and therefore reusable for subsequent flights. The first component of...

20060145022 - Propellant tank baffle system: The invention disclosed here is a pressurization system for pressure-fed launch vehicles. The system employs a hot pressurant gas to minimize the mass of pressurant gas required. It also employs a set of baffles within the propellant tank to reduce heat transfer between the propellant and the hot pressurant gas....

20060145023 - Geometrically encoded magnetic latch intercontact face: A system is provided for docking two vehicles. In one exemplary embodiment, the system includes a first and a second vehicle. The first vehicle has a port thereon. The port has a first magnetic mechanism coupled thereto, and the first magnetic mechanism is configured to provide a first magnetic polarity....

20060145024 - Service vehicle for performing in-space operations on a target spacecraft, servicing system and method for using a service vehicle: A service vehicle for performing an in-space operation on a selected target spacecraft incldues a communication module having at least one of a transmission and a receiving characteristic configurable in order to meet at least one of a transmission and a receiving parameter of the selected targeted spacecraft. In addition,...

20060145025 - Method for aerial rearmament of aircraft: The invention provides a method for the aerial transfer of munitions from a rearming aircraft to the weapons pylon of the recipient combat aircraft. The invention also provides for the selection of munitions from a database of munitions and aircraft types in response to an Air Tasking Order. The invention...

20060145026 - Attenuation device: The attenuation device of the present invention comprises a surface of revolution (11) of circular cross section, such that a set of slots (14) is distributed between the sides of the surface of revolution (11) and adapted to confine an elastic material (15) within the limits defined by the slots...

20060145027 - Method of controlling vortex bursting: This invention relates to a method of controlling vortex bursting on an aerodynamic surface (20) associated with separated flows and, in particular, relates to control of separated flows over aerodynamic or hydrodynamic surfaces (20) that may have highly swept leading edges (26). A method of controlling vortex bursting on an...

20060145028 - Device for monitoring tiltable flaps on aircraft wings: In a device for monitoring tiltable flaps on aircraft wings it is proposed that rotary sensors in the rotary axis of the flap be associated with each actuating element, and a sensor rotation by way of a spring band be connected to the actuating element, as a coupler for angle...

20060145031 - Aircraft wing, aircraft wing composite material, and method of manufacture thereof: To provide an aircraft wing which has both high bending flexibility in the wing chord direction and high capacity to maintain the wing shape in the wing span direction, and to which morphing aircraft technology can be applied in the high-speed regime where aerodynamic forces are high. The wing is...

20060145030 - Deformation-control system and method: A system for selectively controlling deformation. The system includes a first mechanism for resisting deformation about an axis of an accompanying fluid foil. A second mechanism, in communication with the first mechanism, enables deformation along the axis and/or at an angle to the axis. In more a specific embodiment, the...

20060145029 - Wing, especially a carrier wing of an aeroplane, having an adaptable profile: There is described a wing, especially lifting wing of an aircraft, with changeable profile, which extends in wing chord direction (5) running essentially in flow direction and perpendicularly thereto in wingspan direction (10), and comprises a first cover skin (55a) and lying opposite thereto a second cover skin (55b), and...