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US 2013/0240665 A1Published application
Method for improving efficiency of airport deicing operations
AssigneeBorealis Technical Limited
InventorsIsaiah W. Cox, Rodney T. Cox
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AssigneeBorealis Technical Limited
InventorsIsaiah W. Cox, Rodney T. Cox
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A method for improving the efficiency of airport deicing operations is provided. The present method equips aircraft using an airport with onboard non-engine drive means powered to drive one or more landing gear wheels to move the aircraft on the ground autonomously during taxi without reliance on the aircraft's engines. Decreasing or substantially eliminating the operation of aircraft engines during taxi substantially eliminates the likelihood that ice, snow, slush, and other runway contaminants moved by the jet blast produced by aircraft engine operation during taxi will be sprayed from the runway onto surfaces of taxiing aircraft, both prior to deicing and after deicing. Deicing operations can be conducted more quickly, and repeated deicing operations on a single aircraft can be avoided.
A method comprising increasing the efficiency of airport deicing operations by substantially reducing time required for deicing operations and substantially avoiding a need to conduct repeat deicing procedures on aircraft required by the presence of wet or frozen runway contaminants sprayed by operating engines of adjacent aircraft, wherein each of a plurality of aircraft using airport facilities is equipped with onboard non-engine drive means powered to drive one or more landing gear wheels to move each aircraft autonomously on the ground during taxi without operating aircraft engines;
A method for improving efficiency of airport deicing operations, comprising:
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