Apparatus for controlling aircraft parking brakes
OwnerJonathan Sidney Edelson, Isaiah Watas Cox +1inventors
InventorsJonathan Sidney Edelson, Isaiah Watas Cox, Todd Tripp
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Abstract
An apparatus for remotely controlling an aircraft having a self-propelled nosewheel, on the ground, comprises parking brakes; an APU on said aircraft; control means for applying and releasing said parking brakes; control means for turning on and off said APU; transmitting means for transmitting information to said parking brakes and said APU; receiving means for receiving information at said parking brakes; and receiving means for receiving information at said APU.
Claims24
An apparatus for remotely controlling an aircraft having a self-propelled nosewheel, on the ground, comprising:
- parking brakes
- control means for applying and releasing said parking brakes
- transmitting means for transmitting information to the parking brakes of said aircraft
- receiving means for receiving information at the parking brakes of said aircraft.
An apparatus for remotely controlling an aircraft having a self-propelled nosewheel, on the ground, comprising:
- an APU on said aircraft
- control means for turning on and off said APU
- transmitting means for transmitting information to said APU
- receiving means for receiving information at said APU.
An apparatus for remotely controlling an aircraft having a self-propelled nosewheel, on the ground, comprising:
- parking brakes
- an APU on said aircraft
- control means for applying and releasing said parking brakes
- control means for turning on and off said APU
- transmitting means for transmitting information to said parking brakes and said APU
- receiving means for receiving information at said parking brakes
- receiving means for receiving information at said APU.
An apparatus for remotely controlling an aircraft having a self-propelled nosewheel, on the ground, comprising a single control means for consecutively performing the steps of:
- turning on the APU of said aircraft;
- performing one of applying and releasing the parking brakes of said aircraft;
- and
- turning off the APU of said aircraft;
- further comprising:
- parking brakes
- an APU on said aircraft
- transmitting means for transmitting information to said parking brakes and said APU
- receiving means for receiving information at said parking brakes
- receiving means for receiving information at said APU.
The apparatus of any preceding claim, further comprising an emergency stop feature.
The apparatus of any preceding claim, further comprising a fire suppression feature.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.