Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft structure – Fuselage and body construction
Patent
1983-08-11
1986-09-23
Basinger, Sherman D.
Aeronautics and astronautics
Aircraft structure
Fuselage and body construction
244122R, B64D 2510
Patent
active
046131000
ABSTRACT:
Each of two aircraft ejection seats, initially mounted in a side-by-side arrangement in an aircraft, has a primary rocket motor for accelerating the seat/airman combination on ejection, by producing a thrust vector substantially through the center of gravity of the combination, and having a substantial component along that axis of the seat/airman combination about which the combination is rotationally balanced, which lies closest to parallelism with the vertical center line of the airman. To ensure separation, upon ejection, between the two ejection seats, each has, in addition to its primary rocket motor, a lateral thrust rocket motor arranged to produce a transverse thrust vector which passes through said axis at a position spaced from said center of gravity, so as to produce a rotational moment acting on the combination, whereby the two seats are caused to move in respective arcs diverging from one another, but without spinning about said axis.
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Basinger Sherman D.
Corl Rodney
Engineering Patents & Equipment Limited
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