United Technologies, which builds the aircraft's auxiliary power unit, said it would also cooperate.
Raw hydrazine fueled the shuttle's auxiliary power units, which generated hydraulic pressure for various functions in the shuttle.
Flight 186's auxiliary power unit failed during the wait and the aircraft had to return to a gate.
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Air-quality management with measures to reduce emissions from aircraft, vehicles, auxiliary power units (APUs) and ground power units (GPU).
It said it would now widen its probe to look at the battery charger and the auxiliary power unit.
The fire started after a battery in the jet's auxiliary power system overheated.
Officials found that the battery for the aircraft's auxiliary power unit was incorrectly connected to the main battery that overheated.
Donahue says it's not likely this could have happened during flight when the auxiliary power unit was not in use.
The main investigation, which also involves the FAA and Boeing, focuses on the 787's cutting-edge lithium ion battery system that powers the plane's auxiliary power unit.
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The fuel cells could be used as auxiliary power units to produce electricity when an aircraft is on the ground, for example, allowing its engines to be turned off.
Auxiliary power kept the playing field from going totally dark, but escalators stopped working and the concourses were only illuminated by small banks of lights tied in to emergency service.
Richard Walsh, a Massport spokesman, said the jet's auxiliary power unit battery, which is housed in a small compartment known as the aft electrical equipment bay, exploded after crews believed the fire was extinguished.
The 787 has two identical lithium-ion batteries, one of which is located toward the front of the plane and powers cockpit electrical systems, the other toward the rear and used to start an auxiliary power unit while the plane is on the ground, among other functions.
The ES is critical to aircraft operation it distributes power around the aircraft from the engines and the Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) which provides the power to operate the air conditioning and to start the engines at the gate to all the systems requiring electricity.
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Engines, auxiliary-power units, landing gears and even passenger seats are missing from many of the 17 repossessed aircraft.
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The team is planning all sorts of other capabilities for the tech, including navigation systems -- "Power lines are like highways in the sky, " says one of the researchers -- and auxiliary surveillance systems that power up when jacked in.
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But it also meant that each supplier of, say, the wings or the batteries that supplied power to the engines or auxiliary systems, would use their own approach to both the design and the manufacture.
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The front of controller features bass, treble and volume knobs, a power toggle, LED indicator and a 3.5mm auxiliary jack, while the back features a secondary 3.5mm jack, a powered USB port (allowing for the hookup of Bluetooth-enabling dongles, for example) and a toaster slot for the current and previous generation of AirPort Express routers.
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It carries an auxiliary fuel-cell generator in the pickup bed that the Army will use to power communications equipment.
Said jack along with controls for power, gain and Bluetooth pairing hit the backside in addition to an auxiliary port for connecting a handset or tablet via cable.
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