Nonintrusive inspection method and system of aircrafts

摘要

The nonintrusive control method consists in using a tugging device attached to the aircraft's landing gear which is towing the aircraft over a detector line, detector line fixed onto the runway under a penetrating radiation source held by a telescopic boom fixed on a mobile scanning unit. The aircraft is towed with constant speed and electronically controlled in a secured and delimited perimeter. The system consists of a mobile scanning unit (MSU), controlled remotely by a towable mobile control center positioned outside an exclusion area. The MSU consists of a telescopic boom holding on its extremity a penetrating radiation source and a detector line fixed onto the runway and a tugging device, which attaches to the aircraft's undercarriage.

主权项

1. A nonintrusive inspection system comprising: a scanning unit installed on a vehicle chassis, a portal in the shape of a triangle through which an aircraft is being towed, a remote controlled tugging device for aircraft towing, a superstructure mounted on said chassis, a telescopic boom mounted in a two degree joint which holds on its superior extremity a penetrating radiation source, a modular detector line placed on the runway in a fixed position, an exclusion area protection subsystem bounding an exclusion area, a mobile control center placed outside said exclusion area, and an acquisition, processing, storage and image display system, wherein said aircraft is towed through said portal over the detector line, being entirely scanned by said system.