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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 1993
Filed:
May. 28, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Richard S Deakin, Haslemere, GB;
Assignee:
British Aerospace plc, Farnborough Hants, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F42B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
244 / ; 244 / ; 244-328 ; 102388 ;
Abstract
A stabilization system for a towed aerodynamic body 1. The body is provided with two, contra-rotating tubular shrouds 3, 4 each fitted with a set of vanes 5, 6. When the towed body is disturbed by the towing aircraft's wake, the gyroscopic inertia caused by rotation of the shrouds exerts a damping effect on the subsequent oscillatory motion of the towed body. In one embodiment, the shrouds are coupled by wheels which constrain the shrouds to rotate in opposite senses. Hence gyroscopic precession effects due to each rotating shroud cancel.