It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Motor Assist Drive
Boeing Company and Chorus Motors have demonstrated the use of an onboard electric motor attached to the nose wheel of a Boeing 767 to allow jetliners to maneuver into and around gates.
If widely deployed, the onboard nose-wheel motor would largely eliminate the use of tow tugs or the airplanes own engines for such work, reducing ground fuel consumption and emissions.
--snip--