Patent ID: 11964777
Assignee: SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS CANADA INC.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 10:
11. An aircraft with a towing interface, the aircraft comprising:
a fuselage,
a landing gear,
an actuator configured to steer the landing gear;
an elongate member mounted at a first end to the fuselage forward of the steerable landing gear, the elongate member extending forward from the first end and being fixed in rotation about a vertical axis relative to the fuselage;
a towbar coupler mounted to a second end of the elongate member, the towbar coupler being configured to releasably couple a towbar to the elongate member;
a sensor configured to sense a position of the towbar relative to the aircraft when the towbar is coupled to the towbar coupler; and
a controller communicatively coupled to the sensor, the controller being programmed to steer the steerable landing gear according to the sensed position of the towbar relative to the aircraft so that when the towbar moves the aircraft through a turn, an angle of the towbar relative to a centerline of the aircraft is greater than a steering angle of the steerable landing gear.