Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft sustentation – Sustaining airfoils
Patent
1994-06-15
1996-10-01
Kashnikow, Andres
Aeronautics and astronautics
Aircraft sustentation
Sustaining airfoils
244110F, 244110E, 244139, 244114R, 244120, 446901, 446225, 273346, B64C 338
Patent
active
055605680
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus and method for recovering and arresting an aircraft on a floating platform is disclosed. The aircraft has a fuselage, a wing, and a source of propulsion for propelling the aircraft in flight. During landing approach, an inflatable cushion attached to the fuselage is deployed below the fuselage via inflation. In the inflated condition, a fastening material disposed on a downward facing surface of the cushion is thereby adapted to adhesively contact the floating platform deck so that the forward motion of the aircraft is slowed and arrested. In the preferred embodiment, the fastening material is one of male or female VELCRO.RTM. which is adapted to mate with corresponding VELCRO.RTM. material covering the platform deck.
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Dinh Tien
Freewing Aerial Robotics Corporation
Kashnikow Andres
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