Ge Aviation Systems Limited

Otto Darias

Harry Kirk Mathews, Jr

Sridhar Adibhatla

David Michael Lax

Mark Lawrence Darnell

Norman Leonard Ovens

Thomas Charles Swager

Jeffrey Russell Bult

Gerald Les Vossler

Sean Hwang

Grant Hazard

Samit Sura

Steven Louis Kiebles

Christopher Daniel Holbert

Grant Michael Hazard

Systems and methods of providing cellular communication between an aircraft and infrastructure of ground communication nodes are provided. In one example, an avionics communication system located on an aircraft for providing cellular communication between the aircraft and an infrastructure of ground communication nodes includes a directional antenna, one or more processors and memory devices, as well as one or more radio transmitter/receivers. The radio transmitter/receiver can transmit and receive cellular communication signals along multiple communication paths established between the aircraft and one or more identified ground communication nodes using the directional antenna. Signal relay also can be implemented based in part on a determined signal power level, determined frequency shift compensation value for modifying communicated signals to account for expected Doppler effects and/or determined antenna beam steering commands.

Airborne cellular communication system

Systems and methods for stabilizing an aircraft in response to a yaw movement are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting a yaw movement of the aircraft. The yaw movement can cause a front portion of the aircraft to move towards a first side of the aircraft. The method can further include, in response to the yaw movement, initiating a trim process resulting in a thrust differential. The trim process can include increasing thrust in one or more engines on the first side of the aircraft and decreasing thrust in one or more engines on a second side of the aircraft. The method can include controlling the trim process based at least in part on a detected yaw movement of the aircraft.

Controlling aircraft using thrust differential trim

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Otto Darias