Airbus Operations Gmbh

Airbus Defence and Space Gmbh

Jörg Wyrembek

Mark Heintjes

Saskia Dege

Jan Haserodt

Svenja Jegminat

Michael Brady

Jan-Arend Van Bruggen

Eugen Neb

Olivier Criou

Vincent Maire

Roland Gad

A method to detect a failure of a sensor or system in an aircraft, wherein the aircraft includes a wing including a fixed wing and a wing tip device pivotably mounted to the fixed wing, a sensor system, and a control unit including a system behavior model which models a target vale of an operation parameter of the wing, wherein the method includes: detecting a value of an operation parameter by the sensor system; comparing the detected value of the operation parameter to a corresponding target value of the operation parameter obtained from the system behavior model, and declaring a sensor failure or a system failure in response to determining a predefined deviation of the detected value from the corresponding target value of the operation parameter, detecting a sensor failure or a system failure.

Method for operating an aircraft comprising a wing with a foldable wing tip portion

A method for determining the position of a component in a high lift system of an aircraft, the high lift system comprising a central power control unit for providing rotational power by means of a transmission shaft; and actuator drive stations coupled with the power control unit and movable high lift surfaces. The method comprises the steps of acquiring a first rotational position of a first position pick-off unit mechanically coupled with the power control unit by means of a first gear having a first gear ratio, acquiring at least one second rotational position of at least one second position pick-off unit mechanically coupled with a driven element in at least one drive station, and determining the number of full rotations the first position pick-off unit has already accomplished between a neutral position and an intended maximum number of rotations.

Method for determining the position of a component in a high lift system of an aircraft, high lift system of an aircraft and aircraft

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Hamburg, Germany

Jörg Wyrembek