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8167242 |
Launch and recovery system for unmanned aerial vehicles
A method of launching and retrieving a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) (10). The preferred method of launch involves carrying the UAV (10) up to altitude using a parasail (8) similar to that used to...
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8100359 |
Intercept system for falling bombs
An intercept system for destroying a falling bomb includes a packable structure including a compressed expandable net of break resistant cords, a radio altimeter and a deployment mechanism for...
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8056855 |
Missile interceptor with net body
The invention describes and claims an apparatus and method of missile interception. The missile interceptor comprises a net body with a plurality of sections and at least one missile trajectory...
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7954758 |
Method and apparatus for retrieving a hovering aircraft
For retrieval of a hovering aircraft, a cable, bar, or similar fixture is suspended in an approximately horizontal orientation across the retrieval area between two well-separated supports. The...
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7901155 |
Vehicle barrier
In order to stop a moving vehicle without injury to occupants, a vehicle barrier is provided having a pair of platforms disposed on opposite sides of a roadway, and a capture net extending across...
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7654368 |
Hybrid fastener
The invention relates to a hybrid fastener, in particular for the absorption of kinetic impact energy and/or for the absorption of the forces occurring on towing, in particular on towing vehicles,...
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7611094 |
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) deceleration system
A system for slowing an air vehicle, including an independently supported aerodynamic drag device designed so that, after contact is made between the flying air vehicle and the aerodynamic drag...
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7578467 |
Methods and apparatuses for indicating and/or adjusting tension in pliant tension members, including aircraft recovery lines
Methods and apparatuses for measuring and adjusting tension in pliant tension members, including aircraft recovery lines. A tool for indicating tension in a pliant tension member in accordance with...
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7410125 |
Robotically assisted launch/capture platform for an unmanned air vehicle
An embodiment of the invention is directed to a platform for launching and/or capturing an unmanned air vehicle (UAV), particularly a small UAV. The launch/capture platform includes a frame, a...
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7264204 |
Unmanned aerial vehicle catcher
Launch and recovery of an aerial vehicle by a forwardly moving surface vehicle relies on a winch module having a winch to selectively reel out and reel in a towline and a sensor capable of sensing...
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7201348 |
Cruise missile recovery system
A cruise missile recovery system, for capturing a flying cruise missile and for guiding the cruise missile to a landing spot. The cruise missile recovery system has an intercept device for...
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7175135 |
Methods and apparatuses for capturing unmanned aircraft and constraining motion of the captured aircraft
Methods and apparatuses for capturing and constraining motion of unmanned aircraft and other flight devices or projectiles. In one embodiment, the aircraft can be captured at an extendable boom....
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7097137 |
Launch and recovery system for unmanned aerial vehicles
A method of launching and retrieving a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) (10). The preferred method of launch involves carrying the UAV (10) up to altitude using a parasail (8) similar to that used to...
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6981673 |
Wear resisting sleeve system for aircraft landing arresting cables
The aircraft landing arrest cable has wear resisting sleeves positioned thereon in spaced relation to each other to thereby hold the cable out of contact with a non-skid landing surface in a...
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6843613 |
Energy absorbing system
A heavy duty ground retractable automobile barrier for a railroad crossing. Concrete bunkers are placed at each side of a roadway. An upstanding concrete-filled steel pipe fixed in each bunker has...
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6789979 |
Highway safety net
A highway safety net for catching and controlling a vehicle travelling towards the opposite direction of traffic comprises netting connected to a lower cable. A first post top is connected to the...
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6779756 |
Low-profile brake-in-spool aircraft arresting systems
Arresting systems attachable to a tail-hook cable or other device for aircraft arrestment may have a total height of one foot, enabling above-ground installation at the edge of a runway. Arresting...
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6758440 |
Electromagnetic aircraft arrestor system
A system and method for electromagnetically arresting an aircraft landing on an undersized runway, as on an aircraft carrier. The system preferably comprises a cross-deck pendant cable coupled to...
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6604732 |
Airplane crash barrier
A barrier, which is intended to intercept a crashing airplane before it reaches a target, comprises an array of spaced towers. Each tower is several hundred feet tall. Each tower comprises a...
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6581875 |
Anchoring systems for aircraft arresting nets
Anchoring systems for aircraft arresting nets utilize frangible anchor links around lower horizontal straps of each net element of a composite arresting net. Each anchor link may be formed from...
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6394391 |
Landing truck for an aircraft in a forced landing
A landing truck for receiving an aircraft in a forced landing constituted with a wheeled vehicle independently driven by front and rear engines and steered synchronously via front and rear steering...
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6394390 |
Hook cable support assembly
A hook cable support assembly is arranged to support a hook cable above a runway surface for arrestment of an aircraft having a tail hook. The operating mechanism of the support assembly is mounted...
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6264140 |
Method for retrieving a fixed-wing aircraft without a runway
A method and apparatus for retrieving an aircraft in a confined space involves hanging a cable, for example from a kite or mast, across the aircraft's flight path. The aircraft approaches the cable...
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6123294 |
Airplane barrier net
A cargo barrier net (10) for retaining cargo within an aircraft fuselage in the event of a hard landing, crash landing, or in-flight turbulence is provided having a net structure made from Kevlar® ...
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5207302 |
Shock absorbing structure for a stretched cable, particularly for cable retaining rock wall fences, rock fill retaining grids or fences, snow fences, and the like
To permit absorption of sudden impacts or shock overloads, or gradual overloads, on a cable stretched to retain stones, rocks or snow masses, for example in road or railway cuts, a tube is bent to...
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H001133 |
Aircraft arresting system and method
An aircraft arresting system providing a controlled, gradual aircraft deceleration is disclosed. The system includes an arresting barrier comprised of a triggering net/parachute combination. The...
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5092540 |
Apparatus for capturing, securing and traversing remotely piloted vehicles and methods therefor
A system for capturing a remotely piloted vehicle, the remotely piloted vehicle including a snagging line having a mechanism to be snagged at the end thereof. The system includes a snag mechanism...
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5042750 |
Aircraft arresting system
An apparatus for controlling the rate of deceleration of a moving body. The apparatus has a cable or net for engaging a moving body and tape connected to the cable or net. The tape is wound onto a...
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4979701 |
Aircraft arresting elemental net with multiple independent bottom horizontal straps
An elemental net for a multiple element aircraft arresting net system. The elemental net has a single upper horizontal strap, several vertical straps having top ends and bottom ends, and at least...
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4824049 |
Mechanical coupling for tape
An improved coupling for connecting an arresting pendant and the woven tape utilized in an aircraft arresting system is provided. The coupling consists of an elongated hollow body having at least...
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4819915 |
Flexible barrier for arresting falling rocks
A flexible barrier is provided for arresting falling rocks comprising posts and a rock collecting and arresting net. Each post pivots upon a ground-anchored base plate and is stayed by windbracing...
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4817492 |
Device for generating transverse force on ballistic missile mock-ups during air tests
A device for generating transverse force on a ballistic missile mock-up for air tests by means of an installation including a mock-up launching tube adapted to slant at an angle and a recovery...
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4809933 |
Portable aircraft arresting apparatus
Portable aircraft arresting apparatus is comprised of a towable wheeled trailer providing a platform adapted to be anchored along a runway or landing strip and which carries component parts to...
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4730810 |
Protective barrier against falls of stones
The protective barrier comprises a sheet of netting substantially following the ground transverse to the slope and held spread out upright by posts. The posts are held by upstream and downstream...
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4679369 |
Anchoring system
A multiple stake anchoring system for portable aircraft arresting gear including a stake guide for directing a first stake into the ground at a predetermined angle, a stake driven into the ground...
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4674711 |
Portable aircraft arresting apparatus
Portable aircraft arresting apparatus is disclosed which is comprised of a towable wheeled trailer providing a frame adapted to be anchored along a runway or landing strip and which is adapted to...
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4566658 |
Aircraft barricade
A webbing system is disclosed for use as an aircraft barricade wherein a rality of rectangularly-shaped engaging loops are arranged in an alternating, multi-planar array and suspended across a...
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4456205 |
Aircraft arresting gear net raising device
In this device for raising the net of an aircraft arresting gear, on either side of the runway is disposed a frame secured to the ground by means of ordinary anchorings and bearing a piston and...
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4448395 |
Improvements in and relating to winches
A winch arrangement intended for the rapid shifting of aircraft or other wheeled vehicles which incorporate their own braking system and which may be under the control of an occupant during...
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4441672 |
Retractile support unit for an arresting cable disposed across a take-off or landing strip for aircraft
Actuators transversally movable through a reciprocable mechanical connection, under the control of a single unit disposed at one side of the strip are housed within a channel provided across the...
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4393996 |
Aircraft arrestment system
A system is provided to alleviate high initial tensile load in a cable subjected to sudden impact such as airplane arrestment during landing on an aircraft carrier. A series of pulleys or other...
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4331309 |
Programmed aircraft arresting system
A variable K factor energy absorber for an aircraft arresting system has a movable control element which is moved into different positions to adjust the K factor. The movement of the control...
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4304320 |
Moving body velocity arresting line
The invention consists of an improvement in the art of arresting a moving body through the use of steel cables that elongate to absorb the kinetic energy of the body. The improvement comprises a...
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4231535 |
Composite tape for arresting landing aircraft
The tape for connecting a landing aircraft to a rotary energy absorber, which is arresting it includes at least two longitudinal sections, a leading section and a trailing section. The leading...
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4147317 |
Mobile RPV landing deck
A deck for landing an arrested RPV has a row of substantially parallel elastic stringers deployed between a pair of open bed trailers. The stringers are attached to longitudinal rails on the...
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4143840 |
Arrester net gear for aircraft
This aircraft arrester net gear comprises at least one flexible frame having each at least one elementary net slidably mounted therein, in such a manner that when a forwardly projecting element of...
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4102518 |
Aircraft arresting gear
In a gear for arresting aircraft at the ends of a takeoff or landing strip, a net is protected against weather conditions by being folded and enclosed in a bag pressed against the strip tarmac by...
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4056247 |
Aircraft arresting gear net raising device
In this device for raising the net of an aircraft arresting gear, a post is pivotally mounted on each side of the strip in a frame structure disposed obliquely to the center line of the strip, this...
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4047702 |
Device for absorbing impact energy
The invention relates to a device for absorbing impact energy and more particularly to a device to be mounted to a conventional guard rail structure. The device consists of a skein of yarn of...
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4002791 |
Belt coated with polyurethane composition containing cellulosic particles
A woven fabric belt having a coating of polyurethane on each face and extending through the interstices of the fabric. The polyurethane is the reaction product of a polypropylene ether glycol of...
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