Smiths Aerospace, Inc.

Able Corporation

General Electric Company

Kean Khoon Ooi

Frank Saggio, Iii

William Bennett Ribbens

Frank V Parkinson

A refueling drogue adapted to connect to a refueling hose extending from a refueling aircraft. The drogue may include an active stabilization system adapted to effectively stabilize the refueling drogue via control surfaces on the refueling drogue when the refueling drogue is placed in an airstream.

Active stabilization of a refueling drogue

A refueling drogue adapted to connect to a refueling hose extending from a refueling aircraft. The refueling drogue may include an active control system, wherein, in an exemplary embodiment, the active control system is adapted to regulate the position of the drogue to maintain a substantially fixed orientation relative to a refueling aircraft.

Control of a drogue body

Active control of a drogue body

A refueling drogue adapted to connect to a refueling hose extending from a refueling aircraft. The drogue may include a rotatable mass adapted to effectively stabilize the refueling drogue via a gyroscopic effect of the rotating mass on the refueling drogue when the refueling drogue is placed in an airstream.

Stabilization of a drogue body

Heater or dryer apparatus to be installed to aircraft fixed structure, comprising in combination, a heater and blower unit to be attached to the fixed structure, an elongated flexible hose extending away from the unit, and configured to receive a flow of heated air from the unit, a nozzle at a distal end of the hose to direct heated air at a person using the apparatus, and a retainer for releasably retaining the hose proximate fixed structure at a location remote from the heater and blower unit.

Air heater or dryer apparatus, for use on aircraft

A lamination for the stator or rotor of an electrical machine, the improvement comprising the lamination having a first periphery extending about a central axis defined by the lamination; the lamination also having a series of circularly spaced protrusions projecting away from the periphery and from the main extent of the lamination; whereby a stack of laminations, at least some of which incorporate the protrusions, define fluid coolant passages adjacent the protrusions.

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Yorba Linda, CA, United States of America

Kean Khoon Ooi