Abstract:
An aircraft system incorporates a first aircraft 48a, 48b having a grappling device 26 including a first gripper 30 with a first actuator 36a and a second gripper 32 with a second actuator 36b. The first gripper and the second gripper are movable between an open and a closed position to engage a hooking device 18 and pivot together to change a capture angle. A first controller 72 receives a command and operates the actuators in response to open and close the first and second grippers of the grappling device. The controller also receives a second command and operates the first and second actuators to pivot the grippers and provide grappling at a range of capture angles. A second aircraft 10, which may be a UAV, incorporates the hooking device 18. The hooking device includes a ring 20 rotatable from the surface and a third actuator 22 to rotate the ring between a stowed and an extended position.
Abstract:
Known towed bodies can be maneuvered in all three dimensions but, as pure airborne targets, do not have a large load capacity. The towed body (01) according to the invention is designed for bearing large loads and serves exclusively scientific and commercial measurement purposes. To achieve very good aerodynamic properties, the towed body has a fuselage (02) comprising a triangular transverse plane (15), wherein the upper face (18) is designed to be wide and the lower face (19) is designed to be narrow, and comprising a curvature (23) only on the upper face (18), whereas the lower face (19) runs straight. The wings (03) are bent and consist of two segments (07, 08). Small segments (07) are arranged at the bottom of the fuselage (02), which small segments point downwards and stabilise the towed body (01), large segments (08) are connected to the small segments (07), which large segments point upwards and generate lift. In the front and middle region of the fuselage (02) and in the small segments (07) there are load chambers (10, 11) which can have user-friendly segment chambers (22). The unit chamber (09) comprising various units (27), such as a position-stabilising gyroscope system, an anti collision module, accumulators, a generator and an emergency parachute system (25), is located in the rear region of the towed body (01).
Abstract:
An unmanned aircraft system includes a manned aircraft and an unmanned aircraft. The manned aircraft includes a manned aircraft main wing, a manned aircraft fuselage, a manned aircraft landing system, and a manned aircraft joining mechanism provided at a bottom portion of the manned aircraft fuselage. The unmanned aircraft includes an unmanned aircraft main wing, an unmanned aircraft fuselage, an unmanned aircraft landing system, and an unmanned aircraft joining mechanism provided at a roof portion of the unmanned aircraft fuselage. The manned aircraft joining mechanism and the unmanned aircraft joining mechanism are detachably joined. The unmanned aircraft system can take off or land in a state that the unmanned aircraft and the manned aircraft are joined.
Abstract:
A rotary wing vehicle includes a body structure having an elongated tubular backbone or core, and a counter-rotating coaxial rotor system having rotors with each rotor having a separate motor to drive the rotors about a common rotor axis of rotation. The rotor system is used to move the rotary wing vehicle in directional flight.
Abstract:
Eine Vorrichtung zum Absetzen von unbemannten Flugkörpern aus einem Luftfahrzeug mit einer Palette (19), auf der zumindest ein Behälter (2, 2') zur Aufnahme eines Flugkörpers (3, 3') vorgesehen ist, wobei der Behälter (2, 2') einen oberen Behälterabschnitt (24) aufweist, der einen Pylon zur hängenden, lösbaren Halterung des Flugkörpers (3, 3') aufweist, ist dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Behälter (2, 2') einen unteren Behälterabschnitt (20) aufweist, der als Stützbereich für den Flugkörper (3, 3') ausgebildet ist.
Abstract:
A system for connecting an all-wing carrier with a parasite flying unit, characterized in that the carrier (1) and the parasite flying unit (2) are connected via energy distribution means (11 a, 21a, 11b, 21b) configured to exchange energy bi-directionally, wherein the system further comprises a controller (41) configured to control the direction of the flow and the amount of said energy.
Abstract:
The system (1) an external container (15) fixed in a cargo compartment of a transport aircraft (AC). An internal container (4) is arranged in the external container to bring the internal container from a position in which the internal container is entirely located inside the external container to another position (P2) in which the internal container is shifted toward a rear side of the aircraft with respect to the former position such that a release part (7) of the internal container is located outside the aircraft through an opening (8) at a rear side of the compartment.