METHOD AND APPARATUS TO DEPLOY AND RECOVER A FIXED WING UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE VIA A NON-FIXED WING AIRCRAFT

Example methods and apparatus to deploy and recover a fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicle (block 1100) via a non-fixed wing aircraft (104) are described herein. An example method includes tracking a location of a non-fixed wing aircraft in flight (block 1106), tracking a location of a fixed wing airc...

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1. Verfasser:	DAVIDSON, Darcy
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng ; fre ; ger
Schlagworte:	AEROPLANES AIRCRAFT ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES ARRANGEMENTS OR MOUNTING OF POWER PLANTS OR PROPULSIONTRANSMISSIONS IN AIRCRAFT AVIATION CONTROLLING COSMONAUTICS DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT FLYING SUITS HELICOPTERS LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION ORRERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES MEASURING PARACHUTES PERFORMING OPERATIONS PHYSICS RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING RADIO NAVIGATION REGULATING SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES TESTING TRANSPORTING
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Zusammenfassung:	Example methods and apparatus to deploy and recover a fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicle (block 1100) via a non-fixed wing aircraft (104) are described herein. An example method includes tracking a location of a non-fixed wing aircraft in flight (block 1106), tracking a location of a fixed wing aircraft in flight (block 1106), positioning the non-fixed wing aircraft (104) relative to the fixed wing aircraft (102) based on the locations of the non-fixed wing aircraft (104) and the fixed wing aircraft (102) and coupling, via a gripper (112), the fixed wing aircraft (102) to the non-fixed wing aircraft (104) in mid-flight at a recovery location.