Aeronautics and astronautics – Landing field arrangement – Mooring devices
Patent
1992-04-10
1997-11-18
Eldred, J. Woodrow
Aeronautics and astronautics
Landing field arrangement
Mooring devices
340946, 340948, 340952, 359723, 359590, B64F 112
Patent
active
056879300
ABSTRACT:
An improved system is provided suitable for use in landing an aircraft (for example, helicopter, RPV, VTOL) on shipboard comprising a support, base, platform or housing, reciprocal from remote a landing area on the deck of a ship to a position proximate the landing area, the housing carrying an upwardly directed light sensor comprising a lens system and a pair of band-pass filters, one filter before the lens system of the sensor and one after the lens system, the filters each passing the identical wavelength of light at its center but which each need not have the same band width as the other, a pulse detector in close proximity to the upwardly directed light sensor, and means for securing the aircraft to the support, housing, base or platform.
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Cunliffe Geoffrey
Wagner Nicholas Liptay
Eldred J. Woodrow
Hughes Ivor M.
Hughes Neil H.
Indal Technologies Inc.
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