Flight Refuelling Limited

Flight Refuelling Limited Brook Road

James Kemmitt

Christopher Mouskis

Georgios Filippos Papaioannou

Richard John Foxwell

Ismet Gursul

Adrian Bedford

An air to air refuelling drogue assembly includes a reception coupling and a drogue canopy connected to the reception coupling by connection means which hold the canopy in an operative, drag producing, position relative to the reception coupling during refuelling. The drogue assembly is arranged to controllably fail so as to reduce the drag load produced by the drogue when a drag load on the canopy exceeds a predetermined threshold.

Air-to-air refueling drogue assemblies

A drogue assembly includes a probe guide such as a standard small high speed drogue with a first canopy (), and a foldable second canopy () mounted around the first canopy which is biased outwardly, and is foldable inwardly under air pressure loading to overlie the small drogue at low speeds. Thus the drag produced by the drogue varies automatically with airspeed allowing the assembly to be used over a wide range of airspeeds.

Drogue assembly for in-flight refuelling

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Ferndown, United Kingdom

James Kemmitt