DEVICE FOR JETTISONING LARGE HEAVY FREIGHTS FROM AN AIRCRAFT

摘要

The present invention relates to aerospace engineering and is applicable in launching missile vehicles and other heavy large payloads from an aircraft so that to deliver them urgently to remote parts of the Earth and the ocean. <??>An apparatus for launching heavy large payloads from an aircraft comprises a launching container 3 with an open end 4, a pneumatic expulsion device 6 for expelling a payload to be launched from the container through the open end 4, a pressurization source 5, wherein the payload 2 to be launched is located inside the launching container 3 on mounting members 10 that are disposed on at least two belts of the payload 2 to be launched. At least one of the mounting members 10 is a calibrated leg 9, and maximum force adjustment values and admissible lateral displacements 13 of the legs are selected so that to maintain a guaranteed clearance 12 between the launching container 3 and the payload 2 when it is launched from the container. <??>The mounting members 10 are secured on either the payload 2 to be launched, or the launching container 3. The calibrated legs 9 are either maximum distant from or close to the open end 4 of the launching container, respectively. <??>To reduce the dynamic loading on the payload to be launched, the calibrated legs comprise dampers. <??>The present invention ensures reduction in lateral structural loads acting on the payload to launched from the aircraft; reduced structural mass of the payloads; enhanced load-carrying capacity of such payloads as missile vehicles owing to the reduced structural mass thereof, and reduced specific cost of launching the payload; as well as the aircraft and its crew safety owing to a guaranteed clearance between the payload and the container and, hence, impact-free separation thereof. <IMAGE>