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7074003 Helicopter moving device  
A helicopter moving device has a lever arm, a helicopter support arm to attach to a helicopter, and a wheel mounted to the lever arm, such that applying downward pressure to the lever arm causes a...
6527226 Flight deck handling system for landed aircraft  
A remotely controlled movably powered shuttle frame has foundation pads attached thereto at all four corner portions for separating skid pads of a helicopter from the flight deck of a marine...
6427942 Stiffness de-coupled skid landing gear  
A skid landing gear for a helicopter, in which the directional stiffnesses of the cross members of the skid landing gear have been de-coupled from one another, such that optimization of the...
6371410 Emergency landing impact absorbing system for aircraft  
Inflation of impact absorbing bags is effected on a portable platform positioned on an emergency landing zone after jettisoning of damaged landing gear from a helicopter fuselage. The impact...
6129310 Aircraft nose landing gear  
An aircraft nose landing gear installation that utilizes a single piece pin inserted through the gear fittings and into the two piece, fail safe support structure without requiring mechanical...
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...
5915649 Roadable helicopter  
A roadable helicopter according to various aspects of the present invention comprises a vehicle that drives like a conventional car in its road configuration, and converts to fly like a helicopter...
5897077 Quick-change skid landing gear  
A low-profile transportation and storage assembly is readily substitutable with a conventional pair of skid landing gear. The low-profile transportation and storage assembly includes a front...
5893532 Curved wear surface for helicopter skid shoes  
A wear surface for helicopter shoes is constructed by forming a railed enclosure on a curved base plate, placing a mosaic of smooth-surfaced tungsten carbide blocks on the base plate within the...
5887820 Wheel-type landing gear for helicopters  
A wheel-type landing gear is disclosed for helicopters with fastening measures on the helicopter which permit a receiving of the wheel-type landing gear on the craft at fittings provided for the...
5860621 Helicopter landing gear with skids  
Helicopter landing gear, comprising two skids P each having a longitudinal support stretch 1 for standing on the ground and which are connected to a front cross-piece and a rear cross-piece 2 which...
5836544 Emergency soft-landing system for rotor-type aircraft  
An emergency soft-landing system (10) for use on a rotor-type aircraft such as a helicopter (70). The system (10) includes at least one parachute-containing structure (12) that houses at least one...
5791593 Easy-attachable wheel apparatus for helicopters  
An easily-attachable supplemental wheel apparatus that allows one person to perform the ground-handling functions necessary to maneuver an aircraft or helicopter having a skid configured landing...
5765778 Flight vehicle with a safety device  
An aircraft which is capable of safely landing during an emergency landing is disclosed. The aircraft has a safety device which includes a plurality of auxiliary engines. Each auxiliary engine is...
5664743 Device for gripping, guiding and transporting wheeled helicopters particularly for ship's decks  
A device for gripping, guiding and moving wheeled-type helicopters, particularly on board ships, platforms and the like, comprising a pair of crossmembers (6) located parallel to longitudinal axis...
5655733 Aircraft ground transporter  
An aircraft ground transporter is adapted particularly for the transport of wheelless, skid supported aircraft (e.g., helicopters) on the ground. The transporter is self propelled and includes...
5337976 Raisable landing gear for heavier-than-air aircraft, in particular for helicopters  
The invention relates to raisable landing gear including a shock absorbing leg that is pivotally mounted, and to a driving actuator associated therewith. According to the invention, the leg is...
5224669 Landing gear for an aerodyne, with arches in composite material  
The landing gear for an aerodyne, and especially for a helicopter (H), is of the type including lateral members (4) for contact with the ground, such as skids, skis, floats or similar members. The...
5211359 Landing gear for aerodynes, with crosspieces in composite material  
Landing gear for aerodynes and especially helicopters comprising two lateral members (2) for contact with the ground being linked to the fuselage of the aerodyne by at least two crosspieces (3, 4)....
5209431 Device for increasing the stability of helicopters placed on board and set down, having a tricycle landing gear, and helicopter equipped with such a device  
The invention relates to a device for increasing the stability, especially the lateral stability, of a helicopter placed on board (1) having a tricycle landing gear (2, 6), when it is set down on a...
5151004 Vehicle for moving aircraft  
A vehicle for conveying aircraft is disclosed which includes a carriage system capable of lifting, supporting and conveying an airplane. The system has alternately deployable primary and auxiliary...
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...
5086998 Air/sea rescue device  
The invention relatres to an Air/Sea Rescue Device to allow retrieval of persons or objects floating near the surface of water for use with a rescue helicopter. The device provides for the use of...
5080304 Aircraft hold-down device  
An aircraft securement device includes a sliding shaft, typically mounted to the aircraft landing gear. The shaft resembles a harpoon and is lowered through a wire grid when deployed. Tab-like...
5065958 Helicopter soft snow landing aid  
An aircraft landing gear system including a window shaped type membrane wh is mechanically stretched prior to landing. The large surface area of the membrane would significantly increase the load...
5065162 Communication system for helicopter  
The present invention pertains to a radiowave relay station in which image information or the like is transmitted by a helicopter from a first station to a second station. A direction finding...
5062587 Landing gear for a tail sitting airplane  
A tail sitter aircraft of a type that takes off and lands on its tail section with the fuselage pointed vertically upward has landing gears located on its rearward end. Each of the landing gears is...
5060886 Quick change wheel landing gear  
A quick change wheel landing gear assembly (10) is provided as a replacement for a skid landing gear system on a vertical take-off and landing aircraft. The wheel landing gear assembly (10)...
4995722 System for assisting hovering aircraft to land on the platform of a vessel  
The aircraft (1) incorporates means for emitting a conical light beam (14). The vessel (2) incorporates photosensitive cells (6) materializing the outline of the beam on the vessel, which is an...
4852829 Undercarriage apparatus for vertical-lift aircraft  
Axial motion of the wheel assembly of a flat-spring undercarriage for vertical-lift aircraft is provided to permit proper deflection of the flat spring so as to effectively cushion the touchdown of...
4655415 Helicopter flotation  
A helicopter flotation pack includes an inflatable flotation bladder secured to an intermediate structural member which includes means for attachment to a helicopter landing skid. The structural...
4645143 Flexible girder with high energy absorption, and landing gear and tail skid for an aircraft equipped with such a girder  
The flexible girder made of composite materials and with high energy absorption is in the form of an elongate box of laminated structure comprising two rigid flanges (6,7) connected by two webs (9)...
4603869 Helicopter ground handling wheel assembly  
A ground handling wheel assembly for coupling to a skid of a helicopter enables the helicopter to be moved on the ground. The wheel assembly has a main shaft, which has on each end a wheel shaft...
4600168 Ground handling apparatus for a helicopter  
An apparatus with wheels which may be removably attached to either of the skid type landing rails of a helicopter. A generally U-shaped attaching member is adapted to be removably attached to...
4519559 Landing gear energy distribution and righting system  
Each landing gear of the undercarriage of an aircraft includes an hydraulic cylinder, and the hydraulic cylinders are interconnected through hydraulic restoring devices. The hydraulic restoring...
4516744 Helicopter dolly  
A ground handling system for lifting, supporting, maneuvering, and transporting aircraft fitted with skid-type landing gear comprising a dolly assembly of tandem wheel assemblies, a yoke assembly,...
4488693 Aircraft handling systems  
An aircraft handling system, particularly applicable to helicopters on board ship, said system incorporating a plurality of hydraulic winches for effecting movement of an aircraft from a first...
4420132 Securing device for helicopters and the like  
A device for securing helicopters and the like with respect to a support surface such as the deck of a ship has a pair of arresting beams adapted to be mounted on the support surface. The arresting...
4312484 Inflatable flow control  
A flow control is provided between an inflatable and a smaller inflatable log which positions the inflatable with respect to the craft to which it is affixed. The flow control permits the inflation...
4270711 Helicopter landing gear with crosstube pivot  
A helicopter landing gear assembly includes a pair of crosstubes (20, 22) having a pair of struts (28, 30) connected at the outboard ends thereof. A first of the crosstubes (22) is connected to the...
4258888 Quick releasing high strength connector  
A device for rapidly securing and releasing a helicopter is provided. The vice effects positive haul down of an aircraft from a landing attitude above a landing pad aboard ship to a predetermined...
4196878 Aircraft landing-gear with skids  
In rotary-wing aircraft, a landing gear having two main skids connected to the aircraft structure by two cantilevered arcuate supports. Each skid has at least one flexible element capable of...
4174081 Apparatus for securing a flying craft to a starting and landing area  
The present apparatus for securing a flying craft to a starting and landing rea is especially intended for helicopters. In order to secure such a flying craft with a simple, yet effective device,...
4172570 Landing gear in-flight vibration dampener  
During flight, helicopter landing gears are suspended by a tuning spring m the helicopter airframe to provide limited relative movement between the landing gear masses and the airframe. As the...
4171114 Mobile aerial support system  
A mobile aerial support system for use in support of ground operations comprises a helicopter and a mobile helicopter pad. The mobile pad consists of an open, drop-bed trailer adapted to bear and...
4163535 Unmanned multimode helicopter  
An unmanned helicopter capable of controlled free flight comprises a plurality of separable modules arranged in a substantially vertically stacked assembly symmetrical about a vertical axis. The...
4142698 Improved aircraft suspension system with mechanism operable to establish system vertical stiffness and damping and mechanism operationally independent thereof to establish system roll stiffness and damping  
A passive aircraft landing gear system in which the spring rate and damping for aircraft rolling motions about a longitudinal axis are independent of the spring rate and damping for aircraft...
4095759 Device for stabilization of captive aircraft  
This invention relates to an improvement in a device for the stabilization of a captive aircraft with a drive unit for rotor blades which produce lift with the aid of thrust, wherein a mooring line...
4067516 Air cushion pontoon freight helicopter  
The specification describes an air suspension freight vehicle comprising a divided pontoon structure in the form of two parallel spaced apart rigidly connected air cushion pontoons adapted to carry...
4062507 Slope landing compensator system  
A slope landing compensator system for allowing helicopters with air/oil strut type landing gear to land on inclined surfaces while maintaining the air frame in a more upright attitude, comprising...
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