Helicopter shipboard landing system
CA 2622145 C · Owner: Ford, Tom · Inventors: Ford, Tom; Bobye, Michael
Overview
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A system for maneuvering an aircraft for operations in connection with a seagoing vessel, the vessel having a designated area for landings and sling-load operations. Each of the aircraft has a navigation unit (INU) comprising a GPS receiver and an inertial navigation unit. The INU's are updated by data from the GPS receivers and the data from the shipboard unit's GPS receiver and INU are transmitted to the aircraft. The air-craft performs RTK calculations to determine a vector to the shipboard GPS antennas and modifies the vector with data from the INU's.
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- Filed September 14, 2006 and granted December 6, 2016. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 14, 2026.
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