A device for rapidly securing and releasing a helicopter is provided. The device effects positive haul down of an aircraft from a landing attitude above a landing pad aboard ship to a predetermined landing position on the pad, among other uses, through a plurality of rotatable spring-loaded over-center dogs clamped onto the free end of a haul-down cable and a sliding, cylindrical spring-loaded latching device which maintains the dogs in clamped relationship with the haul-down cable. The haul-down cable is instantly released upon freeing of the dogs. (Author)
Quick Releasing High Strength Connector
1979
6 pages
Report
No indication
English
Industrial & Mechanical Engineering , Aeronautics & Aerodynamics , Mechanical Devices & Equipment , Patents , Disconnect fittings , Connectors , Release mechanisms , High strength , Springs , Latches , Helipads , Tethering , Clamps , Mechanical cables , Carrier landings , Helicopters , Landing pads , PAT-CL-244-17.17 , Hauldown systems , Quick release assemblies , NTISGPN