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US 2003/0146005 A1Published application
System and method for drawing fluid into a helicopter bucket
AssigneeDonald Brian Arney
InventorsPeter Leighton Brooke, Robert Jefferson Thompson
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Abstract
A helicopter fire fighting system including a fluid holding vessel suspended from underside of the helicopter; and submersible high volume, low head axial flow pump mounted adjacent bottom of the holding vessel for drawing fluid from a fluid source and delivering the fluid into the holding vessel, the axial flow pump extends along a central axis between an open upper end and an opposite open lower end serving as an inlet for the axial flow pump.
Claims31
A helicopter bucket comprising:
- a fluid holding vessel, having a bottom, suspended from the helicopter;
- and
- a submersible high volume, low head axial flow pump mounted adjacent the bottom of the holding vessel for drawing fluid from a fluid source and delivering the fluid into the holding vessel, the axial flow pump extends along a central axis between an open upper end and an opposite open lower end serving as an inlet for the axial flow pump.
A method for filling a helicopter bucket comprising:
- suspending a fluid holding vessel, having a bottom, from the helicopter;
- and
- drawing fluid from a fluid source by using a submersible high volume, low head axial flow pump located adjacent the bottom of the holding vessel and delivering the fluid into the holding vessel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.