Patents Assigned to Flight Refuelling Limited Brook Road
  • Air-to-air refueling drogue assemblies
    Patent number: 8950708
    Abstract: An air to air refuelling drogue assembly includes a reception coupling and a drogue canopy connected to the reception coupling by connection means which hold the canopy in an operative, drag producing, position relative to the reception coupling during refuelling. The drogue assembly is arranged to controllably fail so as to reduce the drag load produced by the drogue when a drag load on the canopy exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Flight Refuelling Limited Brook Road
    Inventors: Christopher Mouskis, Georgios Filippos Papaioannou, Adrian Bedford, Richard John Foxwell, James Kemmitt