Lucas A Hundley

7677501, Mar 16, 2010

Oct 5, 2007

11/973262

Lucas Adam Hundley - Pasadena CA, US
Guillermo Barba - La Habra CA, US
Frank Garcia, Jr. - Walnut CA, US

Sargent Fletcher, Inc. - El Monte CA

B64D 1/12

2441374, 89 154, 294 8226

A system for releasing an article such as a munition or store from an aircraft employs a sway brace or cradle built into the structure of a bomb rack from lateral or pitching motion before it is released. A claw mechanism is driven out of the sway braces into the article to hold the article in place on the sway braces. The claws retain the article in the sway braces until the article is no longer influenced by the sway braces.

20160039521, Feb 11, 2016

May 9, 2015

14/708197

- San Francisco CA, US
Lucas A. Hundley - Daly City CA, US
Lloyd J. Droppers - Sunnyvale CA, US

B64D 5/00
B64G 1/00

A system for air-launching a liquid fueled rocket launch vehicle using a tubular rocket support structure for holding the launch vehicle and for supplying the launch vehicle with make-up cryogenics, electrical power, and control signals, and for providing coupling to a launch-assist aircraft. The tubular rocket support structure contains cryogenic fluids, in addition to fuel and oxidizer, to cool the fuel and oxidizer during the pre-launch phase. The tubular rocket support structure has features that keep the liquid fuel and oxidizer from sloshing away from the tank outlet ports to the launch vehicle's rocket engine after release from the aircraft but before rocket launch. In operation, the aircraft controllably releases the tubular rocket support structure containing the launch vehicle, and the launch vehicle then launches from the rocket support structure.