公开(公告)号：US20240017857A1

公开(公告)日：2024-01-18

申请号：US18350648

申请日：2023-07-11

Applicant: General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.

Inventor： Michael Joseph Allwein ,  Roy Hultenius ,  James William Groves ,  Arthur Siemens ,  Sebastian Kaser ,  Elijah Abelovski ,  Celestino Morales

IPC: B64U70/20 ,  B64D1/10

CPC classification number: B64U70/20 ,  B64D1/10 ,  B64D3/00

Abstract: Embodiments of a recovery and deployment pylon for recovering and launching/relaunching a target aircraft that can include a housing configured to be coupled with an aircraft, a motorized winch, a towline coupled with the winch and configured to be paid out and reeled in using the winch, a fitting coupled with the towline, and a first latching mechanism configured to selectively engage with a first lug of the target aircraft when the target aircraft is in a first position relative to the recovery and deployment pylon. The target aircraft can be in the first position when the target aircraft is within a predetermined proximity of the device.