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Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 13, 2015
Applicant:

Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., Fort Worth, TX (US);

Inventors:

Brian Tucker, Fort Worth, TX (US);

Kevin Conrad, Mansfield, TX (US);

Chris Thompson, Euless, TX (US);

Brandon Johnson, Dallas, TX (US);

Assignee:

BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON INC., Fort Worth, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64D 43/02 (2006.01); B64D 45/00 (2006.01); G01M 17/007 (2006.01); B64F 5/60 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64D 43/02 (2013.01); B64D 45/00 (2013.01); G01M 17/007 (2013.01); B64D 2045/0085 (2013.01); B64F 5/60 (2017.01);
Abstract

An aircraft monitoring system includes multiple wireless aircraft sensors and multiple meta sensors mounted on-board an aircraft. Each wireless aircraft sensor is configured to sense an aircraft parameter. Each meta sensor is associated with an aircraft sensor and is configured to determine a location or orientation on the aircraft of the aircraft sensor. A data acquisition system mounted on-board the aircraft and connected to the multiple aircraft sensors and the multiple meta sensors can perform aircraft monitoring operations based on the sensed aircraft parameters and on a location or orientation of the aircraft sensors.


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