An exterior aircraft navigation light (2) for an aircraft having a nominal forward flight direction (108) and being able to fly into the nominal forward flight direction as well as into a plurality of further flight directions, such as sideways or backwards, has at least one light emission unit (21, 22, 23, 24) and control circuitry coupled to the at least one light emission unit (21, 22, 23, 24), wherein the exterior aircraft navigation light (2) is configured such that each of the at least one light emission unit (21, 22, 23, 24) has a unit-specific light emission direction that has a predefined horizontal angle with respect to the nominal forward flight direction (108), and wherein each of the at least one light emission unit (21, 22, 23, 24) includes a multi-color light source (21 b, 22b, 23b, 24b) configured to emit red light, white light and green light, and an optical system (21a, 22a, 23a, 24a) for conditioning the red light, the white light and the green light emitted by the multi-color light source. The control circuitry is configured, as a response to a momentary flight direction (10) of the aircraft and the unit-specific light emission direction, to control the multi-color light source (21 b, 22b, 23b, 24b) such that the respective light emission unit (21, 22, 23, 24) emits one of the red light, the white light and the green light.
EXTERIOR AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION LIGHT AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING AN EXTERIOR AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION LIGHT
FLUGZEUGNAVIGATIONSAUSSENLICHT UND VERFAHREN ZUR STEUERUNG EINES FLUGZEUGNAVIGATIONSAUSSENLICHTS
LUMIÈRE DE NAVIGATION EXTÉRIEURE D'UN AÉRONEF ET PROCÉDÉ DE COMMANDE D'UNE LUMIÈRE DE NAVIGATION EXTÉRIEURE D'UN AÉRONEF
2016-09-28
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B64D Ausrüstung für Flugzeuge , EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT |
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