Dive-toss air-to-ground delivery system

Claim 1

A DIVE-TOSS AIR-TO-GROUND DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING THE DELIVERY OF AN OBJECT TO A DESTINATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH A PRECHOSEN DIVE-TOSS DELIVERY TACTIC, THE SAID SYSTEM COMPRISING: AN OBJECT TO BE DELIVERED; A RELEASE MECHANISM; MEANS COUPLING THE SAID OBJECT TO THE SAID RELEASE MECHANISM; FIRST, SECOND, THIRD, AND FOURTH MEANS FOR PRODUCING INDEPENDENT ELECTRICAL QUANTITIES REPRESENTING INSTANTANEOUS SLANT-RANGE TO THE TARGET, INSTANTANEOUS PITCH ATTITUDE OF THE DELIVERY AIRCRAFT ON A FIRST OUTPUT THEREOF, YAW AND ROLL ATTITUDES, AND CURVILINEAR ACCELERATION, RESPECTIVELY, THE SAID SECOND MEANS INCLUDING MEANS PRODUCING AN ELECTRICAL SIGNAL ON A SECOND OUTPUT THEREOF FOR ACTUATING THE SAID RELEASE MECHANISM UPON THE OCCURRENCE OF A PRESELECTED RELEASE ANGLE DURING A PULL-UP MANEUVER; MEANS COUPLING SAID SECOND OUTPUT OF THE LAST-MENTIONED MEANS TO THE SAID RELEASE MECHANISM; A PULL-UP RANGE COMPUTER RESPONSIVE TO THE SAID INSTANTANEOUS SLANT-RANGE AND TO THE FIRST OUTPUT OF SAID PITCH ATTITUDE ELECTRICAL QUANTITIES FOR GENERATING A PULL-UP ELECTRICAL SIGNAL AT THE INSTANT A PREDETERMINED PULL-UP MANEUVER IS TO BEGIN; MEANS FOR DEVELOPING PERCEPTIBLE FLIGHT-PATH-ERROR INDICATIONS: MEANS PASSING THE ROLL-ATTITUDE ELECTRICAL QUANTITY FROM THE SAID THIRD MEANS TO THE SAID FLIGHT-PATH-ERROR INDICATOR; MEANS FOR PRODUCING A PERCEPTIBLE INDICATION OF THE INSTANT WHEN THE PREDETERMINED PULL-UP MANEUVER IS TO BEGIN; AND MEANS RESPONSIVE TO THE SAID PULL-UP ELECTRICAL SIGNAL FOR ENERGIZING THE SAID PULL-UP INDICATING MEANS AND FOR RENDERING THE AFORESAID FLIGHT-PATH-ERROR-INDICATING MEANS UNRESPONSIVE TO THE AFORESAID PITCH ATTITUDE ELECTRICAL QUANTITY THROUGH SAID SECOND OUTPUT FROM THE SAID SECOND MEANS, AND RESPONSIVE TO THE SAID ACCELERATION AND YAW ELECTRICAL QUANTITIES, RESPECTIVELY, SUCH THAT THE SAID FLIGHT-PATH-ERROR-INDICATING MEANS REGISTERS ONLY THE ERRORS IN ROLL AND PITCH DURING THE DIVE PORTION AND ONLY THE ERRORS IN YAW, ROLL AND ACCELERATION DURING THE PULL-UP PORTION OF THE AFORESAID DIVE-TOSS DELIVERY TACTIC.