Posted on 04/02/2018 5:44:07 PM PDT by ransomnote
Thanks for explaining.
-- I'm told patent law is quite arcane. Even the drawings ae only allowed to be done by specialized draftsmen and the attorneys charge above the going rate for the usual business services. I once tried to get a patent on something and the attorney set all my red flags and alarms blaring at 11+. When he realized I did not have deep pockets, he suggested a *design patent* and terminated the conversation. --
I practice patent before the USPTO, more or less as a sideline. Drawing standards have relaxed considerably, except in the area of design patent. If a patent practitioner suggests a design patent without describing what it coveres (ornamental appearance) and what it does not cover (function), he is setting the mark up for a fleecing. VERY common.
As for the cited patents being essential or related to an explout that strips aircraft control from the pilot, well, ROTFL. When it comes to control of the flight surfaces, we are dealing with specific SYSTEMS, that even though they may follow the generic flow diagram in a patent, the failure and takeover modes have to be studied in the context of the aircraft, not the patent. The subect patents, at a glance, are SENSORS only. Radial position, with the possibility to do time-based derivative functions (velocity, accelleration, jerk).
The article I cited is tin-foilery. Maybe somebody has composed one that shows how flight control can be taken away from the pilot. I have yet to see such an article that expresses an accurate understanding of the hydro-electro-mechanical I/O and control loops.
I know nothing of planes. So I have a question, is it possible to put an explosive device some where in a plane that would cause the pilot to lose controls but not blow the plane up?
Cite the case.
That is very well done!!
Caught up finally. Good morning all.
Yes. Might take more than one device, and maybe not literally an "explosion," but all sorts of sabotage is possible, that results in eventual loss of control.
Picking this incident, this aircraft has deicing systems. Cut air lines or pull the fuse(s) or cut the wires, and no deicing.
Well Thank You.
33,000 ‘deleted’ email reasons to prosecute in Utah.
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As noted by others: Jurisdiction occurs where the crimes were committed.
And - Harry Reed his Cronies floating about in that area. Or is Harry traveling?
Just speculating here, but there is a lot of uranium deposits in Nevada as well.
Good morning.
way behind, but loving your post #546
It is to get the pilot to react to an impending stall.
and a mechanical problem can lead to its activation.
As could icing. The quality of the weather info provided to the pilots was noted during the mishap board. The board also cited improper reaction to the stall warning. Depending where the AC was inflight, it is possible it wasn't recoverable.
The updated and additional entries are:
JFK older brother Joe killed in remote control plane during WWII
https://io9.gizmodo.com/5985733/the-secret-drone-mission-that-killed-joseph-kennedy-jr
Kennedy was the eldest of nine siblings, and it was assumed he’d eventually take up the family business. However, in 1942 he dropped out of law school to join the U.S. Navy, hoping to become a pilot. In 1943 and 1944 he flew numerous missions in a PB4Y-1 Liberator (the Navy’s designation for the B-24 Liberator), completing two tours of duty. Eligible for stateside duty at that point, he instead volunteered for a secret and incredibly dangerous mission: operating some of the first military drone aircraft.
Drones had been used in World War I, but they were essentially precursors to cruise missiles. They were sent on their way with a target in mind, but there was little or no remote control exerted once the flight began.
Operation Aphrodite was different. The goal was to take B-17 and B-24 bombers that were no longer fit for regular duty, strip out all unnecessary equipment, and load them with several tons of Torpex explosives. The cockpit was fitted with a radio control system and a pair of cameras, one showing the gauges, one the ground below and ahead. Painted yellow or white, the planes would fly at 2,000 feet, controlled by operators in other planes at 20,000 feet. It was hoped that these massive flying bombs could crack the German submarine pens and rocket launch sites that traditional strategic bombing runs were having trouble hitting.
The United States Navy is testing a new system called the ATARI onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) that allows the Landing Signals Officer (LSO) to take control of an aircraft on approach to the carrier. The Navy has been working on developing the aircraft terminal approach remote inceptor (ATARI), but the system was only tested at sea for the first time this March. Conditions at sea were challenging to say the least.
“I was really impressed with LSO’s ability get me to touch down,” VX-23 test pilot Lt. John Marino, the first naval aviator to land using ATARI, said. “The conditions were really varsity, and it was really impressive the system worked the way it did. On a calm day, it would have been a little bit boring, but this was definitely more challenging.”
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3644557/posts?page=1
thanks, I just posted your link on U1 to see what comments we get..
AAA was name of awans fake car dealership
It was also know as CIA
If a customer showed up looking to buy a car from Cars International A, often referred to as CIA, Abid Awan — who was managing partner of the dealership while also earning $160,000 handling IT for House Democrats — would frequently simply go across the street to another dealership called AAA Motors and get one.
“If AAA borrows a car to Cars International and they have a customer, it was simply take the car across the street and sell it, and then later on give the profit back or not,” Nasir Khattak, who ran the longstanding AAA dealership, testified in a lawsuit. “There was no documentation… If you go and try to dissect, you will not be able to make any sense out of them because there were many, dozens and dozens, of cars transferred between the two dealerships and between other people.”
While Imran and Abid Awan ran their car dealership in Falls Church, Va. in the early part of the decade, Drug Enforcement Agency officials a few miles away in Chantilly were learning that the Iranian-linked terrorist group frequently deployed used car dealerships in the US to launder money and fund terrorism, according to an explosive new Politico expose.
The money that disappeared between the Awans’ dealership, some $7 million in congressional pay, the equipment suspected of disappearing from Congress under their watch, and their other side businesses — all while they displayed few signs of wealth and frequently haggled in court over small amounts of money — raise questions about whether the Awans might have been laundering money or sending it to a third party.
“Based on the modest way Awan was living, it is my opinion that he was sending most of his money to a group or criminal organization that could very well be connected with the Pakistani government,” said Wayne Black, a private investigator who served as law enforcement group supervisor in Janet Reno’s Miami public corruption unit. “My instincts tell me Awan was probably operating a foreign intelligence gathering operation on US soil.”
They don’t want a civil war under a Democratic president.
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