Advanced maintenance system for aircraft and military weapons

A transport craft maintenance system, comprising:

• a central data warehouse, including electronically stored transport craft technical and maintenance data, said central data warehouse further providing on-line transport craft maintenance technical assistance;
• a remote transceiver for transmitting data requests to said central data warehouse and for receiving said transport craft technical and maintenance data from said central data warehouse in response to said data requests;
• a communications link between said central data warehouse and said remote transceiver;
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• test means for identifying transport craft components requiring maintenance, said test means minimizing generation of false BIT flags to minimize removal of operational transport craft components identified by said false BIT flags.

An aircraft system, comprising:

• an aircraft;
• a central data warehouse located remotely from said aircraft including an electronic technical information database providing updated technical maintenance information on aircraft components, said central data warehouse further including a maintenance database for tracking historical maintenance data for said aircraft components, said central data warehouse further including technical support means for providing on-line technical assistance;
• a remote wireless transceiver for transmitting data to and receiving data from said central data warehouse relating to maintenance of said aircraft;
• a communications link between said central data warehouse and said wireless data transceiver for effecting transmission of data between said central data warehouse and said remote transceiver;
• test means for generating a BIT flag to identify failure of one or more of said aircraft components;
• and
• diagnostics means initiated in response to said BIT flag generated by said test means for trouble shooting said aircraft components.

A military weapon maintenance system, comprising:

• a central data warehouse including electronically stored military weapon technical and maintenance data, said central data warehouse further providing on-line military weapon maintenance technical assistance;
• a remote transceiver for transmitting data requests to said central data warehouse and for receiving said military weapon technical and maintenance data from said central data warehouse in response to said data requests;
• a communications link between said central data warehouse and said remote data transceiver;
• and
• test means for identifying military weapon components requiring maintenance, said test means minimizing generation of false BIT flags to minimize removal of operational military weapon components identified by said false BIT flags.

A military weapon system, comprising:

• a military weapon;
• a central data warehouse located remotely from said military weapon including an electronic technical information database providing updated technical maintenance information on military weapon components, said central data warehouse further including a maintenance database for tracking historical maintenance data for said military weapon components, said central data warehouse further including technical support means for providing on-line technical assistance;
• a remote wireless transceiver for transmitting data to and receiving data from said central data warehouse relating to maintenance of said military weapon;
• a communications link between said central data warehouse and said wireless data transceiver for effecting transmission of data between said central data warehouse and said remote transceiver;
• test means for generating a BIT flag to identify failure of one or more of said military weapon components;
• and
• diagnostics means initiated in response to said BIT flag generated by said test means for trouble shooting said military weapon components.