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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:
Nov. 15, 1994
Filed:
Mar. 22, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Graham Wallis, Stevenage, GB;
Assignee:
British Aerospace Public Limited Company, Hampshire, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F41F / ; B64D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
89-154 ; 89-1819 ; 2441374 ;
Abstract
A jettisonable adaptor for air-carried missiles is located between an aircraft-mounted launcher and a missile. The adaptor may include flight stabilization and retardation functions which are deployable on separation from the launcher. Instead of mounting fixing hooks on the missile (which would incur aerodynamic-drag) these are mounted on the adaptor instead. When stabilization has occurred the adaptor is separated from the missile.