Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Vehicle control – guidance – operation – or indication – Aeronautical vehicle
Patent
1997-10-15
2000-08-29
Zanelli, Michael J.
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Vehicle control, guidance, operation, or indication
Aeronautical vehicle
701211, 345331, G09G 508, G06F 314, G06F 1700
Patent
active
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ABSTRACT:
An aircraft display and control system includes a computer, a trackball and selection device, an aeronautical information database, a geographic database, and a plurality of flat panel display devices. The aircraft crew can perform flightplan entry and modification by manipulating graphical information on the display devices using cursor control.
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Briffe Michel
Mitaux-Maurouard Guy
Dassault Aviation
Zanelli Michael J.
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