Patent ID: 8424802

Claim:
A deployable landing area ( 1 ) for either an air machine or one of a vertical landing or a short takeoff/landing device, the landing area ( 1 ) being attached to a support surface ( 22 ) of a support ( 2 ), which is otherwise unsuited for landing of either the air machine or one of the vertical landing or the short takeoff/landing device thereon, for forming a temporary flat deployable landing area ( 1 ) on the support surface, wherein the landing area ( 1 ) comprises: at least two reception elements ( 10 , 11 ) which are interconnected with one another and, when deployed, form a larger deployed landing surface ( 12 ) which is spaced from the support surface ( 22 ) that is otherwise unsuited for landing; at least one protective means ( 20 ) inside of which each one of the at least two the reception elements ( 10 , 11 ) of the landing area ( 1 ) are completely retractable and storable, in at least a partially overlapped manner, so as to facilitate storage of the at least two reception elements ( 10 , 11 ) within the at least one protective means ( 20 ) within a storage area which is more compact than the deployed landing surface ( 12 ); at least one technical mechanical retraction means ( 24 ) for at least one of the at least two reception elements, the retraction means facilitates moving and retraction of the at least one of the at least two reception elements ( 10 , 11 ) from a deployed position to a stored position in which each of the at least two reception elements ( 10 , 11 ) is completely stored inside the protective means ( 20 ) in at least a partially overlapped manner and completely sheltered from the environment; and at least one of a technical mechanical extraction means ( 26 ) and a deployment means ( 25 ) for at least one of the at least two reception elements ( 10 , 11 ), the extraction means ( 26 ) moving and deploying at least one of the at least two reception means ( 10 , 11 ) from the stored position, in the protective means ( 20 ), to the deployed position spaced from the support surface ( 22 ) which facilitates direct landing of one of the air machine the vertical landing and a short takeoff/landing device on deployed landing surface ( 12 ).