The Boeing Company

Paul L Wynns

Jamie J Childress

Marci A George

Kurt A Matthews

John J Fagan, Jr

Egan Greenstein

Justin David Kearns

Craig C M Chun

Frank Henry Dugger

Lyle E Picard

Harold A Koehler

George Hall

Glen W Cunningham

Arthur Jules Rosenwach

Chun Craig CM CM

Jr John J Fagan

Frank Dugger

A method for deploying a payload into a body of water using a deployment vessel, the deployment vessel including a hull defining a payload compartment, the method including positioning the payload in the payload compartment of the deployment vessel, the deployment vessel and the payload having a buoyancy, wherein the buoyancy is initially negative, deploying the deployment vessel into the water at a drop zone, wherein the deployment vessel moves horizontally through the water as it submerges vertically downward under a force of gravity, changing the buoyancy to positive after a minimum horizontal distance is established between the drop zone and the deployment vessel, thereby causing the deployment vessel to surface and, after the surfacing of the deployment vessel, opening the hull to release the payload therefrom.

Waterborne payload deployment vessel and method

A mission pod system for an aircraft set to perform a mission includes a fixed portion that is fixedly secured to an exterior surface of the aircraft. The mission pod system also includes a modular portion that is removably secured to the fixed portion and spaced away from the exterior surface of the aircraft via the fixed portion. The modular portion includes an entirety of mission-specific components.

Modular pod system for aircraft

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Paul L Wynns