Four lights are positioned in a square. When a directional correctional signal from an autopilot exists for a predetermined length of time and is above a given magnitude, lights at one or the other sides of the square are lighted to indicate that face and the direction involved. When a pitch correctional signal from the autopilot exists for a predetermined length of time and is above a given magnitude, lights at one or the other ends of the square are lighted to indicate that fact and the partic...

A mechanical gripper frame unit for devices utilized for lifting parallel-walled containers or the like is disclosed. The novel frame unit or apparatus includes two pairs of rotary locking means disposed thereon for gripping the containers at the upper corners thereof. The longitudinal displacement of the pairs of rotary locking means so as to account for different lengths of containers to be lifted is adjustable by displacing each of the rotary locking mean pairs upon a support frame. When the ...

Systems and methods are provided for integrated control, access, and customizable presentation of navigation related, flight information data on a multifunction display (MFD) within a cockpit. The MFD includes a bezel having controls located thereon which are adapted for controlling display formats, communication devices, navigational devices, and equipment sensors. A display is located adjacent to the bezel. The display is adapted to include at least one display region having navigation related...

An electronic cockpit vision system for a vision system to enable maintenance of control, in continued flight and landing, of an aircraft and its systems when the cockpit has become invaded with dense and continuous smoke. The system includes an electronic signal converter, a scanner, a windshield video camera, cockpit video camera, and smoke over-goggles equipped with two eye level electronic video display devices. The signal converter feeds its output into a video display equipped smoke qualif...

An aircraft display system has a display unit comprising a matrix array of LED's mounted in the glareshield. Air traffic command signals received by a datalink processor produce a visual indication on the display unit which is visible to the pilot when looking through the window. A button on the display unit is pressed by the pilot to acknowledge receipt of instructions. Other important messages are displayed by the display unit at different times. Radar altimeter height is displayed in a color ...

A system, comprising a data receiving arrangement to receive target data points from a data feed arrangement, each target data point including data corresponding to a location of a target aircraft and additional information on the target aircraft, a data analyzing arrangement to analyze the target data points and store each target data point in a target flight record, the target flight record corresponding to the target aircraft a data generation arrangement to generate a flight track for the ta...

A gyroscopic artificial horizon comprises a gyroscope suspended in a gimbal ount which has an inner frame and an outer frame pivoted, one within the other, about two orthogonal axes. It also comprises a device for sensing the spatial position of the axis of the gyroscope and for displaying this position in the form of an artificial horizon. To simplify the mechanical structure and to increase the reliability of the gyroscopic artificial horizon, the device for sensing and displaying the spatial ...

A mission computer (10) stores a nominal route plan which includes information indicative of the precise arrival time at specific navigation positions, e.g., waypoints, and the planned fuel consumption during travel to the specified waypoints. The mission computer (10) provides a time and fuel display system (15) with the route plan information. The time and fuel display system (15) generates a display (200) which indicates the total distance to be traveled during the mission (202), a distance t...

A time reminding machine wherein this insulating members, such as business cards, are selectively inserted between normally closed spring contracts. The contracts are sequentially enabled at intervals, such as one-quarter or one-half hour, by a time keeping device to actuate an annunciator.

In an altitude and vertical speed indicator for aircraft, an altitude indicator includes a graduated scale vertically mobile past a fixed marker and a vertical speed indicator includes a pointer rotatable about the point of intersection of a straight line segment through the fixed marker and a straight line segment through the pointer and pointing towards the mobile scale. The angle defined by the fixed marker and the pointer is representative of the vertical speed value.