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8083184 |
Aerial delivery system
An aerial delivery system is configured to allow delivery of one or more releasable items after the system is extracted from an aircraft. One or more linear guidance devices and releasable securing...
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8066224 |
Deceleration platform
A platform for the aerial delivery of payloads into aquatic environments has a staged v cross-section formed by two walls extending from an end part. The portions of the two walls adjacent to the...
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7467762 |
Advanced unmanned aerial vehicle system
An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) system that couples the speed and responsiveness of a shoulder-launched rocket with the stable, slow-moving aerial platform of a parafoil is disclosed. The unique...
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7302340 |
High altitude parachute navigation flight computer
A navigational computer design for high altitude and other similar navigational needs includes a processor, which receives as input signals from navigational and navigational related sensors such...
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7293742 |
Reefing assembly for a circular parachute
A reefing assembly for a circular parachute having a canopy including a skirt portion, and suspension lines attached to the skirt portion. The assembly includes a tension structure bounding a...
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7204049 |
Emergency drop system for an aircraft advertising display
An emergency drop system allows ballasted advertising banner (14) if disconnected from an aircraft to descend slowly to the ground. Banner (14) is suspended below an aircraft by line (4) held taut...
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7178761 |
Container apparatus for object to be dropped
A container apparatus for an object to be dropped, which contains an object to be dropped functioning as a point marker or a hydrographic conditions measuring device or the like and is dropped by a...
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6951322 |
Personal aircraft device
A personal aircraft device (“PAD”) and a powered personal aircraft device (“PPAD”) configured to be ridden and/or releasably connected to a person or user. The personal aircraft device can be conf...
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6942184 |
Air drop device
An air drop device that includes a frame defining a through-hole and that supports a substantially vertical axle, substantially central to the through-hole. A blade assembly is rotatably mounted to...
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6761334 |
Aircraft passenger safety module
An aircraft has a fuselage with a cockpit and a tail, and jet or propeller propulsion. The improved aircraft has a fuselage with one or more modules located between the cockpit and the tail. The...
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6712317 |
Aerial cargo container with deceleration and orientation assembly
An aerial cargo container is described that includes a cargo box with a plurality of hinged rotor blades having a stowed position against the sides of the box and a deployed position extending...
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6708927 |
Apparatus for slowly and safely descending from a high-rise building
An apparatus for slowing and safely descending from a high-rise building includes a plurality of independent airbags which are connected together to form an airbag jumpsuit, a harness mounted at...
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6655636 |
Product wrapping incorporating air drag device
A system is provided for slowing the speed of a product released into the air from an aircraft. A flexible material wrapped about a product includes a tethered portion thereof that is collapsible...
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6622968 |
Guided airborne vehicle, cargo and personnel delivery system
A guided aerial delivery device which safely and precisely delivers a standard vehicle, personnel and/or cargo, from a high-flying aircraft, to a precise target or location. In the preferred...
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6607166 |
Inflatable flying body for the rescue descent of a person
A person can safely descend from a burning high-rise building or the like using an inflatable flying body that has a hollow conical form in an inflated deployed condition, but is deflated and...
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6511019 |
Short-haul escape system and method
A short-haul escape system includes an elongated line for detachable suspension from a support member on an airborne vehicle, a load-carrying receptacle attached to an end of the line, a container...
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6503119 |
Parachute toy
A rectangular shaped parachute toy, designed to suggest a modern day parafoil, but constructed with a single fabric layer canopy, for simplicity and more rapid opening of the chute. This invention,...
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6497389 |
Airbag system and method for facilitating emergency egress from an aircraft
An airbag system for elevating the fuselage of an aircraft off a landing surface a sufficient degree to allow for emergency egress of passengers and crew through ventral emergency exit doors. An...
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6471160 |
Method for deploying a parachute on a drone
A flying drone includes a flight control computer, a parachute system with a parachute, a power supply system, a propulsion system, and an actuating drive system, without any of these systems being...
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6427944 |
Systems and methods for using airborne communication nodes
A method for providing a communication link from an aircraft (110) to a target (130) is provided. The method includes releasing a first end of a fiber optic cable (120) from an aircraft (110) and...
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6428381 |
Flying device which rotates as it travels through the air
A flying device which rotates as it travels through the air includes a body having three radially projecting vanes. Three blades or wings are pivotally connected to the three vanes. Each blade may...
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6237875 |
Airbag payload landing system for damping landing impact forces on a flying payload
An airbag configuration for braking the landing impact of flying payloads has a central airbag (17) and at least one torus ring (11, 12, 13) surrounding the central airbag. A payload (L) is...
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6224019 |
Parachute landing velocity attenuator
A gas-powered landing velocity attenuator for reducing the final descent velocity (and consequent ground impact load) of a parachutist or parachuted cargo. Immediately prior to impact, the gas...
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6213429 |
Life preserver for aircraft
A life preserver for aircraft includes a fire-protective, anti-knock, inflatable bag defining an inflatable chamber and a life chamber within the inflatable chamber and having an exit, a bumper...
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6131856 |
Parachute trajectory control
A parachute has its suspension lines divided into groups, each group connected to the load through a linear actuator. During descent of the parachute, foreshortening of an actuator or of any group...
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6056241 |
Thin film parachute with continuous lateral reinforcing fibers
A thin film polymeric membrane is made from a plurality of adjacent sections that are bonded together along longitudinal seams taken with reference to an axis of symmetry. The membrane is...
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6029932 |
Detonating valve for releasing openings of air bag landing systems
The detonating valve for releasing openings of air bag landing systems for aircraft and spacecraft has a wedge type charge and a cover closing the opening, which cover is shorn off during the...
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6024326 |
Water-impact release mechanism
A water-impact release mechanism has a hub with a first sleeve coupled thto. The first sleeve has a plurality of circumferentially distributed holes therein. A spring assembly, coupled to the hub,...
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6019317 |
Air-dropped, precision-guided, payload delivery system
A protective ballute for a payload launched from an airborne platform includes an elongated shroud member, gas delivery apparatus for filling the shroud member with a lighter-than-air gas to...
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5992794 |
External airbag protection system for helicopters
An airbag protection system for helicopters. Airbags are inflated either automatically or manually, or a combination of both, prior to the helicopter striking the ground, thus avoiding or...
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5979829 |
In-flight evacuation system
A safety system that will evacuate passengers on an airplane while in flight. The In-Flight Evacuation System operates while the airplane is still in flight. While in operation the In-Flight...
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5961074 |
Method and apparatus for pressurized feeding of liquid propellants to a rocket engine
A method and system for delivering pressurized propellants to a rocket engine, that has significant advantages over the current state-of-the-art. One of the propellants, the "pressurizing...
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5927653 |
Two-stage reusable earth-to-orbit aerospace vehicle and transport system
A two-stage wingless reusable aerospace vehicle having upper and lower stages that take off from a take-off area and separate at a separation point along a first trajectory. The separation forces...
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5899415 |
Personnel guided aerial delivery device
A personnel guided aerial delivery device is disclosed which can be used to safely and precisely deliver personnel, cargo, or a combination of both from an aircraft in flight, to a precise target...
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5884863 |
Method and apparatus for deploying a wing
The deployable wing of the present invention comprises an internal structure having diverging leading edge spars attached to a keel spar and cross spars to form a delta wing configuration. This...
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5884867 |
Stabilizing apparatus
This invention discloses an apparatus for stabilizing a payload assembly including a payload, a maintaining apparatus for at least temporarily maintaining the payload in an airborne environment,...
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5871173 |
Drag-producing aerodynamic device
It is known to use a rigid cone to provide stability to a body being towed by an aircraft. However, such cones are useful over a limited range of speeds. The invention provides a drag-producing...
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5853151 |
Braking shield for a spacecraft, and a satellite fitted therewith
The invention relates to a braking and heat protection shield (1) for a spacecraft (5), said shield being situated at the front of the spacecraft to oppose a flow of gas striking the spacecraft,...
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5826826 |
Landing process for payloads from aerospace missions
A landing process and arrangement for payloads from aerospace missions with a steerable gliding body deployable at high altitudes for accurately returning the payload to the earth surface wherein...
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5816536 |
Protective device intended for integral attachment to a load on a parachute with a view to protecting the said load when it lands
A protective device for securing to a parachute-carried load to protect the same during landing, comprising a supporting base (2) for the load, a shield (6) extending around the periphery of the...
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5791597 |
Energy attenuation system
An energy attenuation system for absorbing at least a portion of the force impulse imparted to an occupant of an aircraft during a crash. The energy attenuation system comprises a seat and an air...
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5768705 |
Inflatable safety apparatus
An inflatable safety apparatus comprising an exterior shell and a chamber located inside the exterior shell. Inflation means, capable of inflating the apparatus are contained within the exterior...
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5722618 |
Airborne tethered sensor system
An airborne sensor system and method for placing a tethered payload in a near-stationary horizontal and vertical position at a desired location in relation to a target. The system includes an...
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5678784 |
Space vehicle and method
A space vehicle has two stages: one containing an air motor; the other containing a rocket propellent motor. After the space vehicle has been launched, flexible wings such as parafoils can be used...
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5678788 |
Steering device for a glider
A load glider has, between the parachute surface and the load, a device in which a reversible transfer of mechanical energy from the main lines to the steering lines takes place, so that...
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5598900 |
Horizontal lifeline energy absorber
An energy absorber for a horizontal lifeline protection system is provided. The energy absorber comprises a pair of independent shock absorbing units of similar construction. Each unit comprises a...
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5577689 |
Container for air transport
A container for air transport and for deliberate drops, for which purpose container (1) is connected to a braking system (3, 4, 6), permits an accurate drop by virtue of the fact that it is...
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5568902 |
Descent, travel, and protection apparatus, method of making and using same
An apparatus comprises a deformable structure surrounding a volume, and means for suspending a fragile cargo in spaced relationship above an impact zone on said deformable membrane. The apparatus...
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5566908 |
Air-launchable gliding sonobuoy
An air-launchable gliding sonobuoy store includes a canister enclosing an flatable membranous wing folded in a collapsed state with an electroacoustic system. After launching, the wing inflates and...
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5547148 |
Crashworthy landing gear
A shock strut assembly for an aircraft landing gear includes a trunnion fitting, a compressible oleo strut subassembly, a wheel subassembly, an energy dissipating subassembly, and a mechanical load...
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