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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2022
Applicant:
Bell Textron Inc., Fort Worth, TX (US);
Inventor:
Thomas Dewey Parsons, Forth Worth, TX (US);
Assignee:
Textron Innovations Inc., Providence, RI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 27/57 (2006.01); B64D 31/06 (2006.01); F02C 9/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64D 31/06 (2013.01); F02C 9/42 (2013.01); F05D 2220/329 (2013.01); F05D 2270/093 (2013.01); F05D 2270/13 (2013.01);
Abstract
Various implementations described herein are directed to an aircraft having a multi-engine configuration with multiple engines. The aircraft may have a flight control system coupled to the multiple engines with a multi-engine interface. The flight control system may be configured to shutdown at least one engine of the multiple engines during reduced-engine operation by continuously calculating altitude for the reduced-engine operation based on one or more of an aircraft descent rate of the aircraft and an engine restart time of the at least one engine.