Process and device for braking a wide-track aircraft taxiing on the ground
AssigneeSociete Nationale Industrielle Aerospatiale
InventorHenri Martin
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Abstract
The invention relates to a process and device for braking an aircraft taxiing on the ground. According to the invention, links are provided between the left-hand pedal and the right-hand brakes and, inversely, between the right-hand pedal and the left-hand brakes, so as to limit the yawing movements. The invention is particularly applicable to the braking of a wide-track aircraft.
Claims9
A method for braking an aircraft taxiing on the ground, said aircraft having a landing gear including two spaced apart undercarriages disposed on opposite sides of the longitudinal axis of said aircraft, each undercarriage carrying at least one wheel and braking means associated therewith;
- and two control members independently actuatable by a pilot and associated respectively with one of said braking means for controlling the braking action thereof;
- which method comprises establishing between the control member associated with each of said wheels a crossed link with the braking means associated with the other of said wheels such that when a direct braking action is exerted on one of said wheels by actuation of its associated control member, a crossed braking action of lesser magnitude than said direct braking action is exerted on the other of said wheels.
Braking system for an aircraft taxiing on the ground, said aircraft having two laterally spaced wheels disposed on opposite sides of the longitudinal axis of the aircraft, said system comprising:
- first and second braking means associated respectively with one of said wheels for producing a direct braking action on the associated wheel;
- first and second control means associated respectively with said first and second braking means for controlling the braking action thereof, said control means being independently actuatable by a pilot;
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- crossed-link means associated with each of said control means for producing, when one of said control means is actuated to produce a direct braking action on its associated wheel, a crossed braking action of lesser magnitude on the other of said wheels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.