Abstract: 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.

Abstract: The present invention consists of a method and a scanning system for the nonintrusive inspection of aircrafts. The nonintrusive control method, according to the invention, consists in using a tugging device attached to the aircraft's landing gear which tows the said aircraft over a detector line, said detector line fixed onto the runway and 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, according to the invention consists of a mobile scanning unit (MSU), controlled remotely by a towable mobile control center (11) (MCC). The system also includes an exclusion area a perimeter protection subsystem (9).