Surveillance balloon

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1990-01-12

1992-05-26

Peters, Jr., Joseph F.

Aeronautics and astronautics

Aircraft, lighter-than-air

Airships with sustaining wings

244 33, 244 31, 244 29, B64B 120

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051159970

ABSTRACT:
A tethered surveillance balloon having a relatively low lift-to-weight ratio (e.g., 1.1) and an aerodynamic device to help maintain the surveillance balloon elevation when subject to high velocity wind conditions at an altitude which is a high percentage of the altitude the surveillance balloon would assume if there was zero wind velocity and all other conditions were the same (e.g. temperature, air density). The surveillance balloon also includes a sensing device such as a TV detector for detecting objects and relaying information to a ground station and with possibly a target designation device, if so desired. The balloon is formed of a material which is virtually, if not entirely, radar and visibly transparent.

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