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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 28, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thierry Bilange, Tournefeuille, FR;
Marie-Laure Divoux-Plantaz, Plaisance du Touch, FR;
Assignee:
Aerospatiale Societe Nationale Industrielle, Paris, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
701-3 ; 701120 ; 2441 / ; 244 / ; 244 / ; 244 / ; 244-8 ; 244 11 ; 244 28 ; 244 72 ; 702144 ; 73-178 ; 258-12 ; 89 3719 ; 172700 ; 364130 ;
Abstract
An aircraft having a reduced-load wing structure is provided with a controllable canard stabilizer (5G, 5D) at the front end of the aircraft and a controller that controls the canard stabilizer. The controller generates a turn command corresponding to an increase in the lift of the canard stabilizer when, simultaneously, the turn command applied by the pilot to the elevational control surfaces (6G, 6D) exceeds a threshold and the measurement of the vertical acceleration of the aircraft exceeds a threshold.