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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2001

Filed:

Dec. 10, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:

Jeffrey Kahler, Phoenix, AZ (US);

Assignee:

Honeywell International Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64D 3/106 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64D 3/106 ;
Abstract

A backup engines-only flight control system accomplishes improved aircraft banking in response to commands by the use of a lead compensated transient differential thrust servo parameter. The lead compensated transient differential thrust servo parameter compensates for the ordinary sluggish banking response during engines-only flight control. Accordingly, because an aircraft equipped with the present invention will respond in a manner expected by pilots, safer backup engines-only flight control is achieved during emergency situations. The improvement comprises a means and method of detecting the magnitude of direction of commanded bank angle and generating a corresponding lead compensated transient differential thrust servo parameter.


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