JPH01254494A - Aircraft feeding loading cargo in air - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable the feed of loading substances from an aircraft being a parent aircraft to other aircraft, by providing a securing device to secure an aircraft receiving the loading substances and a device to load the loading substances to the aircraft secured and receiving the loading substances. CONSTITUTION:An aircraft 2 receiving loading substances is flied near to a position below the drum body of a parent aircraft 1, and the two aircrafts fly in parallel to each other and connection parts 3c and 6 are engaged with each other during flying. A connection 3a lowers a support rod 3b and makes contact with the portions, near the front and the rear edge, of the main wing of the aircraft 2, and the aircraft 2 is secured by means of a securing device 3 in a manner to adhere the main aircraft 1 to the aircraft 2. Through control of an arm 4 mounted to the parent aircraft 1, a loading substance 5 is mounted for loading in a given spot, e.g., pylon, on the aircraft 2. In this way, since the aircraft 2 receives the loading substance 5 in the air during flying, after the aircraft 2 launches the loading substance 5, it is flied to the spot of the parent aircraft 1 waiting near a spot where the loading substance is launched, a loading substance is fed in the air thereto from the parent aircraft 1, and the loading substance can be launched again, resulting in the possibility to save cabin fuel of the aircraft 2 and improve launching efficiency.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to an aircraft that supplies payloads to other aircraft.

[Conventional technology]

In conventional aircraft, external payloads were loaded on the ground.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

Conventional aircraft could only carry external payloads on the ground, which posed the problem of having to return to the ground after detaching the external payloads.

That is, as shown in FIG. 4, when the aircraft 2 detaches the payload 5, it returns to the ground base 10, where it has to load the payload and take off again.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems of the conventional aircraft, and is intended to supply cargo to other aircraft from a mother aircraft.

[Means to solve the problem]

In order to achieve the above object, the aircraft of the present invention is equipped with a fixing device for fixing an aircraft receiving the fixed supply and a device for loading the payload onto the aircraft receiving the fixed supply.

[For production]

According to the present invention, when an aircraft to be supplied with a payload approaches an aircraft that is in flight and is equipped with the above-mentioned fixing device and a payload mounting device, the former aircraft is fixed to the latter aircraft by the fixing device. The latter is then loaded onto an aircraft that receives a fixed supply of payloads while flying through the air using the onboard equipment of the latter aircraft. When this loading is completed, the fixing device is released and the aircraft with the loaded object separates from the mother aircraft and flies on its own.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.

1 is the aircraft carrying the payload (hereinafter referred to as the mother aircraft); 2 is the aircraft receiving the external payload (hereinafter referred to as the supplied aircraft)
It is. On the lower surface of the fuselage of the mother machine 1, contact parts 3a, which are bifurcated into left and right pairs, each branching forward and backward, contacting the supplied machine 2, and the contact parts 3a are mounted so as to be movable up and down. A fixing device 3 consisting of a support rod 3b attached to the lower surface of the fuselage 1 and a connecting portion 3C at the tip of the support rod 3b,
A bendable arm 4 for holding an external load 5 is provided at the tip thereof.

Further, on the upper surface of the fuselage of the supplied machine 2, a connecting part 6 that engages with the connecting part 3C of the mother machine 1 is provided.

In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 2, the external load 5 is loaded from the mother machine 1 to the supplied machine 2 in the following step 5.

(1) First, the supplied aircraft 2 flies close to the fuselage of the mother aircraft 1, and both aircraft fly in parallel. (Figure 2 (A)
) (2) Connections 3C and 6 are engaged while both planes 1.2 are flying in parallel.

(3) The contact portion 3a lowers the support rod 3b and comes into contact with the vicinity of the leading edge and trailing edge on the main wing of the supplied aircraft 2, and the fixing device 3 fixes the mother aircraft 1 and the supplied aircraft 2 in close contact with each other. . (Figure 2 (B)) (4) Operate the arm 4 provided on the mother machine 1 to attach and load the load 5 to a predetermined location such as the pylon of the supplied machine 2. (Kaya 21 Yu (C) ) In this embodiment, as explained above, the supplied aircraft 2 is supplied with the payload 5 from the mother aircraft 1 in mid-flight, so the third
As shown in the figure, after the supplied aircraft 2 leaves the payload 5,
It is possible to fly to the location of the mother aircraft 1, which is waiting near the payload detachment location, receive the payload from the mother aircraft 1 in the air, and detach the payload again, saving onboard fuel of the supplied aircraft 2. , and the withdrawal efficiency can be improved.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, the present invention is capable of supplying payloads from one aircraft serving as a mother aircraft to another aircraft during flight in the air, thereby improving the efficiency of payload detachment and receiving payload supplies. It is possible to save fuel on board the aircraft.

In addition, when supplying payloads, the aircraft receiving the supply shall:
It is fixed to the mother aircraft, and the cargo can be reliably loaded onto the aircraft receiving the supply.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, in which FIG. 1A is a front view and FIG. 1B is a side view. Figure 2 (A), (
B). (q is an explanatory diagram showing the fixation of the aircraft to be supplied and the supply of the payload to the aircraft in the above embodiment, and Figure 3 shows the flight of the aircraft during detachment and loading of the payload in the above embodiment. Figure 4 is an explanatory diagram of the flight state of a conventional aircraft during the removal and loading of a payload. 1.2...Aircraft; 3...Fixing device. 3a. ...Contact part of the fixing device, 3b... Support rod of the fixing device. Father... Connection part of the fixing device, 4... Arm. 5... Loaded object.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An aircraft for supplying payloads in the air, characterized by comprising a fixing device for fixing an aircraft receiving the fixed supply, and a device for loading the payload onto the aircraft receiving the fixed supply.