Textron Innovations Inc.

Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.

Chyau J Tzeng

Mark Adam Wiinikka

Thomas Mast

Robert Patrick Wardlaw

Joshua Allan Edler

Joseph Daniel Leachman

Bogdan Roman Krasnowski

Xiaoming Li

Kevin Knott

Robert Arnold Brack

David Platz

Brent Randal Achttien

Sarah R Villanueva

Brian Mesing

Edith Richard

Daniel John Burns

Bob Thornton

The present invention includes a thrust control apparatus, method and kit for a tiltrotor craft comprising a thrust control handle; a first and a second bar connected to the thrust control handle and connected to a floor support; a first end of a transverse bar connected to the first bar; a linker connected to a second end of the transverse bar; and a crankbell connected to the floor support below the first and a second bars, wherein a first end of the crankbell is connected to the linker, wherein the thrust control handle has a substantially linear motion that controls engine thrust, and the crankbell transfers the substantially linear motion of the handle into a substantially perpendicular motion that engages an engine thrust control at a second end of the crankbell.

Tiltrotor control

The present invention includes a safety apparatus and method for protecting users during maintenance operations for a rotorcraft comprising: at least one permanent, semi-permanent, or detachable safety bar, strap, fastener, hook, or loop that is attached or attachable to a rotorcraft, wherein the safety bar, strap, fastener, hook, or loop is positioned in an area or surface between a windshield of the rotorcraft and a tail boom of the rotorcraft and is connectable to a user safety device to provide fall protection from the area or surface.

Rotorcraft fall restraint protection attach points and mechanism systems

A method for determining a shear property of a sample includes supporting a sample at three or more separate support locations about a periphery of a first surface of the sample in a testing fixture, the sample including a second surface separated from the first surface by a thickness, wherein the sample is axisymmetric about an axis that is orthogonal to the first surface. The method includes applying a load on the second surface of the sample with a load applicator in a direction substantially parallel with the axis, measuring, with a controller, shear testing data of the sample in response to applying the load, and determining, with the controller, a shear property of the sample from the measured shear testing data.

Disk bending shear testing and system

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Arlington, TX, United States of America

Chyau J Tzeng