Air Refueling Drogue

Abstract

An apparatus attached to a fuel hose and deployed rearwardly of a tanker aircraft, the apparatus for inflight refueling of an aircraft and includes a fuel valve for controlling the flow of fuel through the valve, a coupler attached to the fuel valve for receiving and locking onto the probe of a receiving aircraft and for conveying fuel through the coupler and to the probe of the receiving aircraft, and a plurality of struts attached to the coupler, the struts configured and arranged to compress inwardly when acted upon by sufficient compressive forces and to expand outwardly against aerodynamic forces when located in the airstream, the struts forming a bell shaped target for guiding the probe of the receiving aircraft into the coupler.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 13, 1999
Accession Number
ADD019862

Entities

People

  • Ellis S. Greenhalgh
  • Matthew T. Douglass
  • Ronald H. Garber
  • Samuel Greenhalgh

Organizations

  • Naval Air Warfare Center

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerodynamic Forces
  • Aircrafts
  • Deployment
  • Diameters
  • Foreign Object Damage
  • Fuel Hoses
  • Governments
  • Hoses
  • Inflight
  • Inventions
  • Logistics
  • Patents
  • Refueling
  • Refueling In Flight
  • Tanker Aircraft
  • United States

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Electrical Engineering