64 results about "Flight pattern" patented technology

An improved golf ball driver has a first weight positioned within the clubhead of the driver, and a first means for adjusting the first weight in a generally vertical direction within the clubhead, that is, from top to bottom thereof. The improved driver also has a second weight positioned within the clubhead, and a second means for adjusting the second weight in a generally horizontal direction within the clubhead, that is from the heel to the toe thereof. Adjusting the weights allows a golfer to eliminate natural swing problems and / or to make a desired change in the flight pattern of a golf ball when it is struck by the driver.

An unmanned air vehicle for military, land security and the like operations includes a fuselage provided with foldable wings having leading edge flaps and trailing edge ailerons which are operable during ascent from launch to control the flight pattern with the wings folded, the wings being deployed into an open unfolded position when appropriate. The vehicle is contained within a pod from which it is launched and a landing deck is provided to decelerate and arrest the vehicle upon its return to land.

A terrestrial cell site handoff list is dynamically maintained for an airborne cellular system. A beam pattern is maintained relative to an airborne cellular system repeater, but rotates relative to the geographic area of coverage. A location and heading of the airplane, locations of respective beams transmitted from the airplane based on airplane flight pattern data, and locations of respective cell sites within a vicinity of footprints of the respective beams transmitted from the airplane are determined. A list of viable handoff terrestrial cell site candidates is then calculated based on the beam pattern, the location and heading of the airplane, the locations of respective beams transmitted from the airplane based on airplane flight pattern data, and the locations of respective cell sites.

An unmanned air vehicle for military, land security and the like operations includes a fuselage provided with foldable wings having leading edge flaps and trailing edge ailerons which are operable during ascent from launch to control the flight pattern with the wings folded, the wings being deployed into an open unfolded position when appropriate. The vehicle is contained within a pod from which it is launched and a landing deck is provided to decelerate and arrest the vehicle upon its return to land.

According to one embodiment of the invention, a system for protecting aircraft includes a plurality of missile warning sensors and a turret mounted near the top of at least one support structure. Each missile warning sensor is operable to detect a missile and the turret is operable to emit a laser beam that is directed toward the missile to divert the missile from its intended flight pattern.

An aircraft-mounted base transceiver station (mBTS) for providing intermittent coverage in a cellular radio network. The mBTS utilizes the existing protocol of its terrestrial counterparts, thereby avoiding dual-mode devices and enabling common usage of terminal monitoring and device management systems for devices connected to a single radio access network even when outside terrestrial coverage areas. The aircraft follows a transient flight pattern, providing intermittent flyover connectivity for remote radio device such as machine-type devices. Connectivity may be store and forward. Channel usage may be adjusted to avoid interfering with terrestrial communication cells during flyover. Doppler effects due to aircraft speed may be accounted for. The mBTS may be configured to service in-range radio devices which are outside a Doppler-inhibited region and / or to prioritize communication with devices based on expected time outside the Doppler-inhibited region. An aircraft mounted antenna may have a radiation pattern focused toward devices outside the Doppler-inhibited region.

A system and method for advanced warning of severe weather for general aviation aircraft is presented. An aircraft includes an onboard weather tracker which monitors atmospheric condition changes. The weather tracker uses data from an onboard barometric altimeter and a GPS device to calculate air pressure changes in order to identify when the aircraft is flying into a low-pressure zone. The weather tracker uses the air pressure's rate of change and the aircraft's speed to determine the criticality of a situation and appropriately notifies a pilot. The weather tracker provides the pilot with local airport information and alternative flight pattern information per the pilot's request.

Systems, computer program products, and methods for displaying navigation performance based flight path deviation information during the final approach segment to a runway and during landing of non-precision flight modes are provided. Improved graphical depictions of navigation performance based flight path deviation information provide pilots and flight crew members with clear, concise displays of the dynamic relationship between ANP and RNP, mode and aspect of flight and related procedures, intersecting flight paths, and current actual flight path deviation from a predefined flight path during the final approach segment to a runway and during landing. For example, an enhanced IAN display may include NPS-type deviation scales to show RNP / ANP relationships and predetermined RNP markers to alert the pilots and flight crew members that the FMC has transitioned from an NPS display for RNAV (LNAV / VNAV) flight procedures to an enhanced IAN display for a non-precision (non-xLS) approach and / or landing.

The Curtis Protocol, an aircraft control interface, is provided. The Curtis Protocol standardizes the division and selection of aircraft flight regimes and flight modes within the selected flight regime.

The invention provides a waypoint path self-learning flight method and system for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The method comprises the following steps: acquiring each waypoint of a terrain to be flown over and constructing a waypoint database of the terrain to be flown over; reading waypoints between a predetermined starting point and a predetermined ending point of the UAV in the waypoint database of the terrain to be flown over, and acquiring a route path between the predetermined starting point and the predetermined ending point of the terrain to be flown over based on an ant state transition rule. According to the waypoint path self-learning flight method for the UAV, the waypoint database of the terrain to be flown over is constructed; when the predetermined starting point and the predetermined ending point are input, a path route can be fast obtained through an ant colony algorithm; therefore, after the UAV flies manually for the first time, the UAV in an automatic flight mode can automatically select a proper flight path according to real-time situations in a complex environment, quickly passes through a target area and reaches the predetermined ending point, and the UAV also can automatically select to land or return according to complex situations after a mission is completed.

This invention relates to a method and apparatus comprising an illumination system which produces a light pattern ahead of the turbine blades which disrupts a bird's flight pattern and thus reduces and / or prevents the bird's impact on turbine blades.

Described herein are systems and methods for tracking suspect aircraft. One embodiment is related to a method including receiving location data and current flight data of an aircraft, analyzing the location data and current flight data using flight behavior algorithms, detecting route deviation of the aircraft, and providing a report of flight pattern analysis and the detected route deviation to at least one device on a network. Another embodiment is related to a system comprising a location network determining location data of an aircraft, a searchable database storing historical flight activity data, current flight data, and the location data from the location network, a flight tracking module receiving location data and the current flight data of the aircraft from the database, analyzing the location data and current flight data using flight behavior algorithms, detecting route deviation of the aircraft based on the historical flight activity data, and providing a report of flight pattern analysis and the detected route deviation to at least one device on a network.

The invention discloses an unmanned aerial vehicle formation performance system based on UWB location and an implementation method thereof. An ultra broadband wireless communication technology and a time division TDoA technology are utilized to establish a three-dimensional location system applied to indoor and outdoor small areas; varieties of technologies of micro quadcopter formation navigationflight technology, a full-color LED light dimming technology and the like are combined to be applied to an indoor / outdoor small area performance system. In a three-dimensional location area, an aircraft colony performing navigation flight according to planned tracks, and color change of dimmable LED lamps arranged on a plurality of micro aircrafts is controlled to construct varieties of static and dynamic flight patterns, and stronger visual effect can be generated. As the time division TDoA technology based on UWB, a computer simulation micro aircraft colony flight pattern technology, an unmanned aerial vehicle colony flight pattern distribution storage technology and a PC coordinator synchronization and self synchronization combined technology are utilized, price of the whole system canbe reduced.

The invention discloses an intelligent balloon. The intelligent balloon comprises a balloon body, a balloon valve, a ballast device, a collecting device and a controller, wherein the balloon valve is arranged on the balloon body and used for deflating the intelligent balloon when being opened; the ballast device is used for releasing ballast; the collecting device is used for collecting environment parameters and flight state information of the intelligent balloon; and the controller is respectively connected with the balloon valve, the ballast device and the collecting device to determine the flight mode of the intelligent balloon according to the flight state information of the intelligent balloon and control the balloon valve and the ballast device according to the flight mode, the environment parameters and the flight state information. According to the invention, the lifting of the balloon can be intelligently controlled and the service life of the balloon can be greatly prolonged so that the balloon can obtain much meteorological data through single flying; the same elevation can be measured for a plurality of times so that the reliability of the measured data is improved; and moreover, the balloon can be controlled to safety and stably land to achieve the purpose of being recycled so that the flight cost is reduced.