Ram-Air Turbines  (RATs)

• When RATs are airborne, then they are living as ARATs or commonly just RATs. These might be primary or secondary installations on aircraft. They might be turning to produce electricity, compress air, or moving an endless loop. Or perhaps the turbine is doing some other task.  RATs may be installed on kites, kytoons, aerostats, glider, hang gliders, powered aircraft, UAVs, bombs, missiles, re-entry vehicles, arrows, projectiles, tossed objects, ski suits, parachutes. gliding parachutes, toys, sailplanes, sky diver suits, hang glider pilot suits.  RATs may be tiny or very large.
   

• An AWECS ram air turbine could be employed to drive air to a ground-based chamber, bladder, room, mineshaft, drying tube, living room, etc.   Send in your ideas.
   

• Some patents related to RATs   (send in your favorites)
   

• Posted in forum OZ Report on September 30, 2010, by JoeF
  In what ways are RATs now in hang glider systems?
  In what ways could RATS be in effective hang glider systems?
  RATs :: Ram-air turbine systems
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_air_turbine
  Consider tiny RATs, large RATs, on-board RATs, off-board RATs, Launch area RATs, Landing zone RATs.
  For onboard RATs in HGs, consider RATs in high hats position, low-hat position, hidden-til-used position, doubling as control device, sustainer device, camera-involved device, inflation-pump, instrument-battery-charger, etc. Engineering support drawings for ideas are invited. How might RATs help to sustain flight in emergency situations? How might RATs play in HG launching systems? Communication systems? Windfield awareness systems?
  Let your imagination form the future. Pros and cons of suggestions and illustrations are invited as we go.
  However, let the stream flow so the table is full of choice.
  Main, auxiliary, grounded, aloft, …
  In ten years from now, where in hang gliding will RATs be?
  And we have, I am guessing, already in OZ the stories of rats making home and damage in hang glider bags.   
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYY0dE69I1A  Rat goes flying.
   

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