TOWING VEHICLE WITHOUT TOWING BAR FOR BOWING PLANES

摘要

In the case of a towing vehicle having its own propulsion drive for towing an aircraft without a towbar, which vehicle has a U-shaped chassis-frame recess which is open at the front and has a clamping-in and lifting device arranged therein for the nose wheels of an aircraft, the clamping-in and lifting device (which is suspended in a pendular manner on the chassis frame (1)) consists of a pivoting-lifting ramp (8), furthermore two telescopic arms (10), which are arranged on the pivoting-lifting ramp (8) in a parallel-rigid manner, have telescopic cylinders (11) and have gripping arms (14) which can pivot in and whose nose wheel contact surfaces (18) are in each case rigidly mounted on the gripping arms (14), and consists of telescopically adjustable hold-down devices (12, 13) which are articulated on the support (7). …??The drawing shows the clamping-in and lifting device with the nose wheels (17) raised. …IMAGE…