US3410559A - Airborne target with infrared source - Google Patents

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US3410559A
US3410559A US545309A US54530966A US3410559A US 3410559 A US3410559 A US 3410559A US 545309 A US545309 A US 545309A US 54530966 A US54530966 A US 54530966A US 3410559 A US3410559 A US 3410559A
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Jr Felder A Miller
Charles L Ray
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B64—AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; COSMONAUTICS
    • B64D—EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; FLIGHT SUITS; PARACHUTES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF POWER PLANTS OR PROPULSION TRANSMISSIONS IN AIRCRAFT
    • B64D5/00—Aircraft transported by aircraft, e.g. for release or reberthing during flight
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F41—WEAPONS
    • F41J—TARGETS; TARGET RANGES; BULLET CATCHERS
    • F41J9/00—Moving targets, i.e. moving when fired at
    • F41J9/08—Airborne targets, e.g. drones, kites, balloons
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F41—WEAPONS
    • F41J—TARGETS; TARGET RANGES; BULLET CATCHERS
    • F41J9/00—Moving targets, i.e. moving when fired at
    • F41J9/08—Airborne targets, e.g. drones, kites, balloons
    • F41J9/10—Airborne targets, e.g. drones, kites, balloons towed

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  • infrared source targets for practice detection of aircraft is currently widely used.
  • Various types of homing missiles capable of sensing and directing their own courses to a source of infrared energy are in use.
  • various forms of energy have been employed to produce the infrared source on such targets including the burning of solid fuels, electrical energy and the like.
  • pitot and static lines Located in a restricted area or venturi in the air passage leading to the burner, weI provide pitot and static lines. These lines are applied to either side of a diaphragm operator for an air valve which controls the quantity of air admitted to the burner. Therefore, the pitot-static system is effective to maintain a substantially predetermined volume of combustion air for mixture with the fuel, at different forward speeds of the target and at different density altitudes.
  • the air valve would supply a greater total ICC volume of air in unit time than would be supplied at the same speed at a much higher altitude, of say 10,000 feet.
  • FIG. 1 is a side elevational view of our improved target, certain parts being broken away and in section;
  • Beneath the diaphragm 48 is a stationary valve seat 5S, and a plurality of fuel passages 56 lead from beneath the seat -55 into the space 57 directly beneath the diaphragm 48.
  • a Pitot tube 86 As shown in FIG. 2, we place in the venturi or reduced area portion 27 of the tube 24 a Pitot tube 86. Also located in the venturi section of the tube 24 is a static connection 87. The Pitot v86 is connected by 'a tube 88 to the portion of the housing 74 of the operator 73 beneath the diaphragm 76. The static connection 87 is connected through a line 89 to the upper portion of the housing 74 above the diaphragm 76.
  • the target is to be launched from a carrier aircraft and towed, it is deployed behind the towing aircraft through the cable 13, Through the medium of certain break away switches, not shown, or if desired under control of radio responsive mechanisms, also not shown, the solenoid 33 is energized and the high tension coil for the spark plug 43 also is energized. Having previously set the control handle 53 of the regulator 36 to the predetermined position, the target is now towed through the air, whereupon through the ram jet tubes 64 the space 63 around the end of the air-fuel tube 24 is pressurized.

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FR87077A FR1525063A (fr) 1966-04-26 1966-12-12 Cible aéro-portée comportant une source de rayons infra-rouges
DE19671506045 DE1506045A1 (de) 1966-04-26 1967-01-12 In der Luft fliegendes Ziel

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US3539811A (en) * 1968-08-15 1970-11-10 Chain Lakes Res Assoc Standard or reference source of infrared radiation
US3623727A (en) * 1969-07-01 1971-11-30 Us Navy Tow target including a controllable source of heat radiation
US3623726A (en) * 1968-12-09 1971-11-30 Talley Industries Aerial tow dart deployable from a target drove with a ballistically actuable deployment station
US3837281A (en) * 1969-04-25 1974-09-24 Thiokol Chemical Corp Thermal radiation emitter
US4524753A (en) * 1982-11-12 1985-06-25 Daniel Wolf Infra-red heating apparatus
US4607849A (en) * 1985-03-07 1986-08-26 Southwest Aerospace Corporation Jet exhaust simulator
WO1995000813A1 (en) * 1993-06-25 1995-01-05 The Commonwealth Of Australia Maw flight line test set
AU687824B2 (en) * 1993-06-25 1998-03-05 Commonwealth Of Australia, The Maw flight line test set
US5915694A (en) * 1998-01-09 1999-06-29 Brum; Roger D. Decoy utilizing infrared special material
US6116606A (en) * 1998-08-21 2000-09-12 Meggitt Defense Systems High speed glide target
US6571714B1 (en) 2001-12-26 2003-06-03 Meggitt Defense Systems Silicon window infrared augmenter
EP1350017A1 (de) * 2000-12-15 2003-10-08 Precision Combustion, Inc. Ir-quelle, -verfahren und -vorrichtung
US6634299B2 (en) 2000-11-27 2003-10-21 Trw Airbag Systems Gmbh & Co. Kg Gas generator
US7170071B1 (en) 2004-09-29 2007-01-30 Broussard Richard D Infrared emitter
US20070057112A1 (en) * 2005-09-09 2007-03-15 Meggit Defense Systems Reel-out, reel-in magazine and towline cartridge
US8132492B1 (en) 2009-02-09 2012-03-13 Meggitt Defense Systems Dispensing device for infrared special material

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US2418566A (en) * 1942-05-11 1947-04-08 Solar Aircraft Co Fuel-air mixture control for aircraft heaters
US2933317A (en) * 1958-03-24 1960-04-19 Cooper Dev Corp Source for ray emission
US3086202A (en) * 1956-10-22 1963-04-16 Del Mar Eng Lab Infrared emitting tow target
US3219827A (en) * 1963-04-25 1965-11-23 Pittinger Abraham Lincoln Infrared source utilizing an exothermic chemical charge

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US2418566A (en) * 1942-05-11 1947-04-08 Solar Aircraft Co Fuel-air mixture control for aircraft heaters
US3086202A (en) * 1956-10-22 1963-04-16 Del Mar Eng Lab Infrared emitting tow target
US2933317A (en) * 1958-03-24 1960-04-19 Cooper Dev Corp Source for ray emission
US3219827A (en) * 1963-04-25 1965-11-23 Pittinger Abraham Lincoln Infrared source utilizing an exothermic chemical charge

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3539811A (en) * 1968-08-15 1970-11-10 Chain Lakes Res Assoc Standard or reference source of infrared radiation
US3623726A (en) * 1968-12-09 1971-11-30 Talley Industries Aerial tow dart deployable from a target drove with a ballistically actuable deployment station
US3837281A (en) * 1969-04-25 1974-09-24 Thiokol Chemical Corp Thermal radiation emitter
US3623727A (en) * 1969-07-01 1971-11-30 Us Navy Tow target including a controllable source of heat radiation
US4524753A (en) * 1982-11-12 1985-06-25 Daniel Wolf Infra-red heating apparatus
US4607849A (en) * 1985-03-07 1986-08-26 Southwest Aerospace Corporation Jet exhaust simulator
WO1995000813A1 (en) * 1993-06-25 1995-01-05 The Commonwealth Of Australia Maw flight line test set
AU687824B2 (en) * 1993-06-25 1998-03-05 Commonwealth Of Australia, The Maw flight line test set
US5915694A (en) * 1998-01-09 1999-06-29 Brum; Roger D. Decoy utilizing infrared special material
US6116606A (en) * 1998-08-21 2000-09-12 Meggitt Defense Systems High speed glide target
US6634299B2 (en) 2000-11-27 2003-10-21 Trw Airbag Systems Gmbh & Co. Kg Gas generator
EP1350017A1 (de) * 2000-12-15 2003-10-08 Precision Combustion, Inc. Ir-quelle, -verfahren und -vorrichtung
EP1350017A4 (de) * 2000-12-15 2005-01-05 Precision Combustion Inc Ir-quelle, -verfahren und -vorrichtung
US6571714B1 (en) 2001-12-26 2003-06-03 Meggitt Defense Systems Silicon window infrared augmenter
US7170071B1 (en) 2004-09-29 2007-01-30 Broussard Richard D Infrared emitter
US20070057112A1 (en) * 2005-09-09 2007-03-15 Meggit Defense Systems Reel-out, reel-in magazine and towline cartridge
US7467758B2 (en) 2005-09-09 2008-12-23 Meggitt Defense Systems Reel-out, reel-in magazine and towline cartridge
US8132492B1 (en) 2009-02-09 2012-03-13 Meggitt Defense Systems Dispensing device for infrared special material

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