An exterior aircraft navigation light for an aircraft having a nominal forward flight direction 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 and control circuitry coupled to the at least one light emission unit, wherein the exterior aircraft navigation light is configured such that each of the at least one light emission unit has a unit-specific light emission direction that has a pre-defined horizontal angle with respect to the nominal forward flight direction, and wherein each of the at least one light emission unit includes a multi-color light source configured to emit red light, white light and green light, and an optical system for conditioning the red light, the white light and the green light emitted by the multi-color light source.


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    Title :

    EXTERIOR AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION LIGHT AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING AN EXTERIOR AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION LIGHT



    Publication date :

    2016-09-29


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    B64D Ausrüstung für Flugzeuge , EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT



    EXTERIOR AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION LIGHT AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING AN EXTERIOR AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION LIGHT

    SCHOEN CHRISTIAN / HESSLING-VON HEIMENDAHL ANDRE / JHA ANIL KUMAR | European Patent Office | 2016

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