The Boeing Company

Theboeing Company

David Arthur Whelan

Gregory M Gutt

David G Lawrence

Michael Lee O'Connor

Clark Emerson Cohen

Barton G Ferrell

Robert W Brumley

Arun Ayyagari

Ying J Feria

Per Kristian Enge

Jeffrey H Hunt

Richard Donovan Jones

Michael Eglington

Stephen A Walls

Lynne Wenberg

Atul D Jain

Brian Jay Tillotson

John T Sullivan

A Dorian Challoner

Alan Zachary Ullman

Jonathan Martin Saint Clair

John P Leuer

D Anthony Galasso

John William Hunter

Greg Busche

Christopher J Martens

Brent Michael Ledvina

Chellappa Balan

Parthasarathy Ramanujam

James P Scott

Glenn Scott Bushnell

William J Bencze

Timothy Mark Aldrich

Mark Lockwood Psiaki

Ordie Dean Butterfield

Marianne E Mata

Greg M Gutt

Michael L O'connor

Bart Ferrell

Matthew M Everett

Stephen G Lambert

Dennis George Harris

Anne T Haddad

Rachel Rané Schmalzried

Peter M Fyfe

James C Lassa

Rachel Rane′ Schmalzried

Christ P Tzelepis

Shailesh Atreya

David E Corman

Bentley Edwin Northon

Gregory Gutt

Tina Stoia

Eric B Jensen

Daniel Joseph Sego

Jonathan Kenji Brown

James Albert Davis

Robert H Liebeck

Robert Roland Keever

Lindsay E Krejcarek

Mike T Trujillo

Jeffrey Matthew Jesiolowski

John M Sullivan

Rachel Schmalzried

Grant Joseph Atkinson

Jay S Pearlman

Derrell L Brown

Petras V Avizonis

Jacklyn Ann Holmes

David Lynch, Jr

David J Glll

Vincent J Castelli

George A Velius

Rachel Rane' Schmalzried

Michael A Rizzo

Michael Joseph Delaney, Jr

Phillip R Grajek

Tina R Stoia

Jeffrey M Jesiolowski

Dorian A Challoner

Dennis G Harris

Timothy M Aldrich

Micahel L O'CONNOR

Rachel R Schmalzried

David Gill

Michael L Eglington

Christoper J Martens

Micahel L Eglington

Barton G Ferrel

A method and apparatus for shaping fuselage sections. A first fuselage section is held in a holding structure in a cradle in a cradle system. Force are applied to the first fuselage section with an actuator system to a portion of the first fuselage section such that a first current shape of the first fuselage section changes towards a first desired shape for the first fuselage section to join the first the fuselage section to a second fuselage section.

Cradle system for shaping fuselage sections

A method and apparatus for processing fuselage sections. The apparatus comprises a cradle system, a metrology system, and a controller. The cradle system holds a first fuselage section and applies forces to the first fuselage section to change a current shape of the first fuselage section. The metrology system makes measurements of the current shape of the first fuselage section. The controller receives the measurements from the metrology system, identifies the forces needed to change the current shape of the first fuselage section towards a desired shape for connecting the first fuselage section to a second fuselage section, and sends commands to the cradle system to apply the forces to change the current shape of the first fuselage section towards the desired shape.

Fuselage manufacturing system

Method and apparatus for providing autonomous control of a vehicle. A vehicle can be manually controlled by an operator. An autonomous system can monitor the operator's control inputs and the environment of the vehicle to determine whether the control inputs result in safe operation of the vehicle. If control inputs are not safe, then the autonomous system can modify the operator's unsafe inputs into safe inputs. In various instances, the autonomous system can operate the vehicle without operator input. In the event an operator attempts to apply control inputs to the vehicle while the autonomous system is otherwise in control, the autonomous system can check to see whether the operator's inputs result in safe operation of the vehicle. If the operator's control inputs are safe, then the autonomous system can replace its autonomous commands with the operator's commands.

Variably controlled ground vehicle

A system and methods for location authentication are presented. An estimated server signal is estimated based on a generated known code signal, and a client received satellite signal is received from a client device. The client received satellite signal is compared to the estimated server signal to provide a comparison result.

Server algorithms to improve space based authentication

A rapid start power unit and a method of operating a rapid start power unit are disclosed. A fuel cell converts combustible fuel into electrical power during a normal operational period after an initial start-up period when little to no electrical energy is produced. One combustion chamber receives unspent fuel emitted by the fuel cell and combusts the unspent fuel to generate a first heated gas stream. Another combustion chamber receives combustible fuel and burns the combustible fuel to generate a second heated gas stream during the initial start-up period. A turbine receives and is driven by the first and second heated gas streams to drive a drive shaft. A generator coupled to the drive shaft generates electrical power during the initial start-up period and supplemental power during the normal operational period. In an alternative embodiment, a two-stage combustion chamber is used instead of two serially-arranged separate combustion chambers.

Rapid start hybrid solid oxide fuel cell power system

Systems, methods, and apparatus for laser communications in super-geosynchronous Earth orbit are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the disclosed method involves transmitting, by at least one laser on at least one first satellite, at least one first transmit signal. The method further involves receiving, by at least one detector on at least one first satellite, at least one first receive signal. In one or more embodiments, at least one first satellite is in super-geosynchronous Earth orbit (S-GEO). In at least one embodiment, at least one first transmit signal and at least one first receive signal are laser signals and have a field of regard covering one hemisphere of the Earth.

Laser communications in super-geosynchronous earth orbit

An aircraft includes a fuselage, wings coupled to the fuselage, and a transceiver. The aircraft further includes a plurality of planar phased array antennas coupled to the transceiver and fixedly attached to the fuselage or to at least one of the wings. The plurality of planar phased array antennas include a first planar phased array antenna having a first normal vector and a second planar phased array antenna having a second normal vector. The first normal vector is not parallel to the second normal vector.

Phased array antennas for high altitude platforms

A method for managing a wireless communications system may include the steps of: (1) requesting wireless communication links between a plurality of user terminals and an airborne communications relay terminal, (2) designating one of the plurality of user terminals as a primary user terminal to make a direct communication with the relay terminal, (3) designating other ones of the plurality of user terminals as secondary user terminals to make direct communication with the primary user terminal, (4) connecting the primary user terminal directly to the relay terminal, and (5) connecting the secondary user terminals indirectly to the relay terminal through the primary user terminal.

Wireless communications system and method for managing and optimizing a wireless communications network

A communications system includes radio frequency equipment to generate a forward link configured for wireless transmissions of a base-to-user data stream from a plurality of airborne communications relay platforms to at least one user terminal, wherein the forward link includes a plurality of relay-to-user links, each one of the plurality of relay-to-user links includes a relay-to-user radio frequency signal encoded with a different base-to-user data sub-stream.

System and method for distributed wireless communications

An antenna system includes an array of radiating elements forming a diamond shape. The diamond shape includes a first axis and a second axis. The diamond shape is oriented with the first axis aligned with a reference plane shared by a plurality of airborne communications relay platforms. The diamond shape is reoriented to maintain the first axis aligned with the reference plane in response to a change in position of the reference plane relative to the array.

System and method for wireless communications using an adaptable diamond phased array antenna system

A satellite communication system may include a communication satellite orbiting Earth, a user terminal in radio communication with the communication satellite through a user link, a communication relay apparatus operating at an altitude of approximately 65,000 feet and in optical communication with the communication satellite through a feeder link, and a gateway station in radio communication with the communication relay apparatus through a gateway link.

Satellite communication system

A method and system are disclosed for providing an estimate of a location of a user receiver device. The method involves emitting, from at least one vehicle, at least one spot beam on Earth; and receiving, with the user receiver device, at least one spot beam. The method further involves calculating, with the user receiver device, the estimate of the location of the user receiver device according to the user receiver device's location within at least one spot beam. Each spot beam contains at least one acquisition signal, which may comprise at least one ring channel. Each ring channel comprises a frame count; a space vehicle identification (SVID); a spot beam identification (ID); and/or X, Y, Z coordinates of the vehicle emitting the spot beam relative to an Earth coordinate system. In one or more embodiments, at least one vehicle may be a satellite and/or a pseudolite.

Geolocation using acquisition signals

A communication network may include a satellite configured to provide a plurality of satellite cells within a satellite coverage area, and one or more unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) configured to fly within the satellite coverage area. Each UAV is configured to fly over one of the satellite cells. A resource allocation system may be configured to dynamically allocate at least a portion of a frequency spectrum between the satellite and the UAV(s). Each UAV provides a plurality of UAV cells within a satellite cell in response to the resource allocation system allocating the frequency spectrum (or portion thereof) to the UAV(s).

System and method for allocating resources within a communication network

A communications system includes radio frequency equipment configured to generate RF beams from a high altitude communications platform providing communications coverage over a coverage area, a beamformer configured to apply beam weights to the RF beams to divide the coverage area into service areas arranged in a frequency reuse ground pattern, and a processor configured to adjust the beam weights to compensate for beam displacements resulting from motion of the high altitude communications platform along a flight path, and interchange the RF beams to maintain the frequency reuse ground pattern throughout the flight path.

System and method for maintaining communications over a coverage area

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David Arthur Whelan