A method of landing an aircraft which is overweight or whose landing wheels are not operatively deployed, including: providing a carriage assembly which may travel along a landing path at the landing speed of the aircraft; providing braking means capable of decelerating the carriage assembly supporting an aircraft to a manoeuvrable speed within the length of the landing strip; operatively positioning the carriage assembly for receiving an aircraft at the end of its flight path; flying the aircraft onto the operatively positioned carriage assembly; and operating the braking means to reduce the speed of the carriage assembly supporting the aircraft.
AIRCRAFT LANDING EMERGENCY CARRIAGE
2017-04-20
Patent
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
IPC: | B64F GROUND OR AIRCRAFT-CARRIER-DECK INSTALLATIONS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR USE IN CONNECTION WITH AIRCRAFT , Boden- oder Flugzeugträgerdeckeinrichtungen besonders ausgebildet für die Verwendung in Verbindung mit Luftfahrzeugen |