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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2016
Applicant:
Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., Fort Worth, TX (US);
Inventors:
Troy Thomas Bushmire, Saginaw, TX (US);
David Bryan Roberts, Bedford, TX (US);
Brad John Roberts, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Assignee:
BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON INC., Fort Worth, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01F 1/46 (2006.01); G01F 15/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01F 1/46 (2013.01); G01F 15/185 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention includes an adjustable Pitot tube and method for using the same for operating or flight testing an aircraft comprising: a Pitot probe; a streamline tube connected to the Pitot probe; a mount on the aircraft connected to the streamline tube, wherein the streamline tube can at least one of rotate about an axis of the mount, or the streamline tube can move the Pitot probe closer to, or away from, a skin of the aircraft.