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US 5,707,026 AGranted
Process for piloting an aircraft to improve microgravity state and corresponding system
AssigneeCentre National D'Etudes Spatiales
InventorsLuc Lefebvre, Flavien Mercier
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Abstract
Process for piloting an aircraft in order to improve a microgravity state and the corresponding system. Instead of supplying the pilot with an information linked with the instantaneous position of the equipment in free floating form (M), he is supplied with an information relative to the anticipated position of said equipment. Application to microgravity studies.
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Process for piloting an aircraft in order to improve a microgravity state in the aircraft, comprising the steps of:
- giving the aircraft a substantially ballistic trajectory;
- releasing within the aircraft an equipment to be placed in a microgravity state;
- determining the anticipated vertical component of the anticipated relative position of the equipment relative to the aircraft at the instant t+.DELTA.t, wherein .DELTA.t is an anticipation time;
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- correcting the aircraft trajectory as a function of said anticipated vertical component.
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Piloting system comprising:
- means (10) for releasing in the aircraft an equipment (M) to be brought into a microgravity state;
- means for processing an information on the basis of the position occupied by said equipment (M) relative to the aircraft and for displaying said information in the cockpit;
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- said system being characterized in that means (36, MAU) for processing the information are able to calculate the vertical component (Z.sub.av (t+.DELTA.t)) of the anticipated relative position of the equipment (M), the anticipation time (.DELTA.t) being determined and regulatable.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.