Stores ejection system

Details Stores ejection system Stores ejection system

1997-10-28

1999-05-25

Jordan, Charles T.

Ordnance

Bomb, flare and signal dropping

B64D 104

Patent

active

059071184

ABSTRACT:
A stores ejection system for retaining a store on the underside of an aircraft and forcibly jettisoning the store away from the aircraft. The ejection system includes an ejector mechanism for releasably holding and jettisoning the store away from the aircraft and a storage device for storing pressurized gas at an operating pressure selected for actuating the ejector mechanism to release the store and forcibly jettison the store. The system further includes a dump valve movable between a closed position in which the storage device is isolated from the ejector mechanism, and an open position in which the pressurized gas is free to flow from the storage device to the ejector mechanism for pneumatic actuation of the ejector mechanism to release and jettison the store. The system includes a thermal control mechanism operable to heat the pressurized gas within the storage device upon operatively detecting a drop in pressure within the storage device to increase the pressure of the gas to the predetermined operating pressure.

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