Accession Number:

ADD014994

Title:

Guidable Stores.

Descriptive Note:

Patent Application, Filed 30 Aug 90,

Corporate Author:

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY WASHINGTON DC

Personal Author(s):

• Travor, Bruce W.
• McEachern, James F.
• Marshall, Frank P.

Report Date:

1990-08-30

Pagination or Media Count:

13.0

Abstract:

A guidable sonobuoy is disclosed that is ejected from a moving aircraft into the free stream with a ring wing opened to guide the buoy along a predetermined flight path. While the buoy remains packed inside a launch container, the ring wing, made of spring steel, is collapsed around the nose portion thereof. Once launched, the ring wing will fly the buoy to a predetermined destination.

Descriptors:

• AIRCRAFT
• BUOYS
• CONTAINERS
• FLIGHT PATHS
• FREE STREAM
• LAUNCHING
• MOTION
• NOSES
• RING WINGS
• SONOBUOYS
• SPRINGS
• STEEL

Subject Categories:

• Acoustic Detection and Detectors
• Fluid Mechanics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE