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WO/2008/093085A1 |
A method of transferring a fluid to an aircraft from a surface station comprising: the aircraft flying in a coupled circular pattern such that at least a portion of a hose coupled to said aircraft and said surface station adopts a vertic...
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WO/2008/059221A1 |
An aircraft (10) or other conductive body having an electrical conductor which is capable of storing electrical charge, the aircraft comprising: connection means (20, 22, 24) for connecting said conductor with at least one other aircraft...
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WO/2008/059232A1 |
An aircraft, or other conductive body, (10) comprises transmission means for transmitting information to at least one other aircraft, said transmission means comprising: means (13) for generating an electric field external to the aircraf...
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WO/2008/003933A1 |
A drogue assembly includes a probe guide such as a standard small high speed drogue with a first canopy (14), and a foldable second canopy (20) mounted around the first canopy which is biased outwardly, and is foldable inwardly under air...
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WO/2007/104942A1 |
In a reception coupling and drogue assembly (2), light sources (32) are arranged around the wall (26) of the probe passage adjacent the opening (24). The light sources (32) each serve to illuminate the opposing part of the drogue, giving...
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WO/2007/044021A1 |
Interoperable aerial refueling apparatus (30) and methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a receptacle (40) configured to fluidly receive a terminal portion (42) of a refueling boom (20) is coupled to a refueling drogue (38). A retaine...
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WO/2007/013874A1 |
An in-flight refueling system, bladder device and method are provided for enhancing the stability of an elongate hose extending from a tanker aircraft (110) during an in-flight refueling operation. The various embodiments of the present ...
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WO/2006/137827A1 |
An in-flight refueling system, sensor system and method are provided for detecting and damping changes in the disposition of an elongate hose (114) extending from a tanker aircraft (110) during an in-flight refueling operation. The vario...
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WO2006073468A9 |
A refueling drogue adapted to connect to a refueling hose extending from a refueling aircraft. The drogue may include an active stabilization system adapted to effectively stabilize the refueling drogue via control surfaces on the refuel...
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WO/2006/093521A1 |
An in-flight refueling system, damping device and method are provided for substantially reversing a change in the disposition of an elongate hose (114) extending from a first aircraft (110) during an in-flight refueling operation. The va...
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WO/2006/091217A1 |
An in-flight refueling system, alignment system, and method are provided for substantially automating the positioning and engagement of an in-flight refueling system carried by a first aircraft (110) with respect to a refueling receptacl...
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WO/2006/091779A1 |
An aerial refueling system including a refueling drogue assembly (100) including a refueling drogue and a refueling hose (110) in captive relation with the refueling drogue and a drogue positioning system. The drogue positioning system i...
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WO/2006/085986A1 |
An in-flight refueling system, boom (114), and method are provided for extending the range of motion of an in-flight refueling boom (114) carried by a first aircraft (110) so as to facilitate an in-flight refueling operation between the ...
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WO/2006/085985A1 |
An in-flight refueling system and method are provided for facilitating the emergency separation of the components of a probe and drogue in-flight refueling. The in-flight refueling system and method provides a fuse device capable of bein...
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WO/2006/085923A2 |
An in-flight refueling system and method are provided to extend and retract an in-flight refueling device (120) between a stowed position and an extended position relative to a tanker aircraft (110) . The system and method of the present...
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WO/2006/083272A1 |
A positioning system, device, and method are provided to facilitate the in flight positioning of two aircraft (110, 120) relative to one another such that a second aircraft is guided to an in-flight refueling position relative to a first...
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WO/2006/032747A1 |
The invention concerns a device for connecting in flight an aircraft to a refuelling device of a tanker aeroplane. The invention is characterized in that the support structure (9) carrying the hollow connecting boom fixed to the fuselage...
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WO/2006/028494A2 |
An in-flight refueling system for an unmanned aircraft (10) is responsive to sensed forces acting on a refueling receptacle (12) of the aircraft (10) by a separate refueling probe, to control movements of the aircraft (10) as it is being...
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WO/2006/005949A1 |
A coupling assembly (1) for releasably interconnecting fluid passages. A female coupling member (3) has a first end (10) arranged for connection to a first fluid passage, and a second end comprising a socket (12) extending along a first ...
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WO/2005/120950A1 |
An illuminating system, device, and method are provided to illuminate an in-flight refueling operation involving a first aircraft (110), serving as a tanker aircraft and carrying the illuminating system (115) of the present invention, an...
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WO/2005/044663A1 |
Pilot director Lights (PDLs) mounted on the exterior of a refueling tanker aircraft (10) utilize light emitting diodes (LEDs) (213) as a light source to provide visual information to the pilot of an approaching aircraft (30). The PDLs ma...
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WO/2005/019031A1 |
Methods and apparatus for illumination of aerial refueling hoses are disclosed. In one embodiment, a conduit (112) for transferring a flowable material includes a wall member. A plurality of reflective members (118a, 118b, 118c) are at l...
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WO/2005/016749A1 |
A transfer of ordnance units (20) from a first aerial vehicle (10) to a second aerial vehicle (14) performed while both vehicles are airborne. The first aircraft (10) is used as an ordnance storage, ordnance delivery and ordnance supplie...
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WO/2005/009840A2 |
Methods and apparatus for illumination of aerial refueling hoses are disclosed. In one embodiment, a conduit for transferring a flowable material includes a wall member. A plurality of optical fibers are at least one of formed within an ...
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WO/2005/005255A1 |
This invention proposes an aerospace transportation system and operation method that applies to launch vehicles, sounding rockets, spacecraft, aeroplanes and helicopters. In this system the mass of propellant, or the energy source necess...
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WO/2004/016505A1 |
The invention is a variable displacement hydraulic motor-controlled hose reel drive system (10) for aerial refueling of a receiver aircraft from a tanker aircraft. The system includes a variable displacement hydraulic motor (26), a tacho...
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WO/2002/103203A2 |
A closed fluid transfer system is provided including a fluid source (12) in fluid communication with an inlet of hollow body.(14) The hollow body includes a flexible and expandable wall (26), typically composed of elastomeric material, a...
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WO/2002/101685A1 |
In-flight refuelling of a fleet (1) of aircraft by a refuelling aircraft (2) through a refuelling boom requires that a queue is formed and that the number, one or possibly two, of passages for each aircraft at the refuelling boom is dete...
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WO/2002/101686A1 |
A navigation and guidance computer system using navigation sensors to determine aircraft position, and automatically control the aircraft to fly from an initial position (410, 502) to intercept and follow a crew-selected rendezvous orbit...
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WO/2002/076826A1 |
A system for launching, refuelling and recovering in flight an aircraft (10) such as an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) from a larger carrier aircraft (16) comprising a holder (22) on the carrier aircraft (16) to which the UAV (10) is deta...
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WO/2002/055385A1 |
The drogue (10) comprises a canopy (50) supported by a plurality of adjustable ribs (42) and further ribs (43). A control unit (36) is provided for moving the adjustable ribs (42) into a first position (P1), in which an air stream can in...
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WO/2002/024529A1 |
This invention relates to a new design and integration approach in the configuration, capability, and side door, hatch, or other removable pressurized plugs, useful for mounting and operating various types of roll on roll off airborne re...
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WO/2001/067115A2 |
A flow aligned device (12, 66, 100, 122, 150, 176, 214, 234) comprises a probe or vane (12, 66, 100, 122, 150, 176, 214, 234) that will sense angle of attack of an aircraft (10, 74, 106, 124, 164, 180, 210, 231). The flow aligned device ...
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WO/2000/032470A1 |
A deployable probe arrangement, e.g. for an inflight refuelling probe, comprises a proximal tube portion (18) which is carried by a compliant mounting comprising inner and outer spherical bearing arrangements (28, 30) respectively. The o...
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WO/1999/064942A2 |
The airspeed limiting performance envelope of a helicopter is converted to a groundspeed envelope by factoring-in the wind speed and direction. A groundspeed command for an unmanned helicopter is provided as a function of the range to th...
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WO/1998/054053A1 |
A drogue assembly (10) for in-flight refuelling includes a circumferential array of triangular support arms which carry a drogue parachute (29) which extends circumferentially around their shorter sides. Each support arm is pivoted and m...
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WO/1998/046484A1 |
An apparatus includes a unitary hollow device (70) for covering sources (96, 97, 98) of lightwave energy and portable directional receivers (95) which convert infrared signals emitted from the source (96, 97, 98) to intelligible communic...
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WO/1998/039208A1 |
A drogue assembly (10) comprises a circumferential array of triangular support arms (11). Each support arm (11) is pivoted and mounted on a pivot pin (21) at its apex (19) for swinging movement in a radial direction. Each juxtaposed pair...
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WO/1998/039207A1 |
A reusable rocket airplane (10) which may be utilized to launch satellites (26) and other payloads into space. The airplane may also be used for rapid surface to surface flight. The reusable rocket airplane (10) may be safely supplied wi...
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WO/1998/017874A1 |
An improved fuel transfer pump (10) is provided for relatively high flow transfer of fuel from one aircraft to another during an inflight refueling procedure, wherein the fuel transfer pump (10) includes a jet-type scavenge pump (12) for...
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WO/1998/007623A1 |
The present invention pertains to the field of aeronautics and more precisely to equipment for the in-flight refuelling of a an aircraft. This invention relates to an in-flight aircraft refuelling system that performs the autonomous sear...
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WO/1997/043180A1 |
The invention relates to aircraft in-flight refuelling. To facilitate the connection of an in-flight-refuelling line on an adjustable boom at the rear of a refuelling aircraft with a connection receptacle on an aircraft being refuelled, ...
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WO/1997/033792A1 |
A method of refuelling a cargo-carrying aircraft and a suitable refuelling system are proposed. The cargo-carrying aircraft is an aircraft with liquid-fuel engines and the tanker aircraft carries fuel for the other aircraft and transfers...
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WO/1994/018068A1 |
A ramp system (10) in a first embodiment incorporates a fore (12) and an aft (14) ramp section interconnected by a spindle (24) which permits both pitch and roll movement of the aft section relative to the fore section. The fore section ...
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WO/1993/009030A1 |
The present invention is related to a launch system for launching a payload into earth orbit. A system and a method of launching a payload into earth orbit is provided which utilizes an airframe (1) capable of flight from the earth's sur...
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WO/1993/007055A1 |
An in-flight hose-and-drogue refueling system has the capability of steering the drogue (10) using four thrusters (20, 30) which are energized by pressurized air. The system measures the drogue's 3-dimensional position relative to either...
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WO/1993/001090A1 |
A vehicle propulsion system for accelerating a vehicle (12) along a desired travel path in the atmosphere, space, or aerospace includes a trail laying device (10) for laying a trail of fuel (14, 16) along at least part of the desired tra...
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WO/1991/006471A1 |
An in flight refueling apparatus mountable on a tanker aircraft (10) has a probe receptor (13) coupled with a fuel line (11). The receptor is arranged to be deployed outboard of the aircraft and can be provided on a drogue (12) or a boom...
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WO/1991/005703A1 |
The invention relates to the field of aeronautical drogues. The prior art aeronautical drogues require a tanker aircraft to use different drogues to enable the tanker to refuel aircraft having widely differing speeds such as helicopters ...
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JP7333385B2 |
A metal air battery electrolyte replenishment system comprised of a base station with docking receptor apparatus and matching docking probe on a flying drone. The probe onboard the drone has a sensor that guides the drone to connect with...
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