CPC F02K 9/95 (2013.01) [F02K 9/32 (2013.01)] | 16 Claims |
16. A flight vehicle comprising:
a fuselage; and
a propulsion system coupled to the fuselage, the propulsion system including:
a manifold; and
an initiator operatively coupled to the manifold;
wherein the manifold has a plenum therein to which multiple rocket motors are couplable via separate mounts for each of the multiple rocket motors, to provide ignition to the multiple rocket motors;
wherein the plenum is an annular plenum with an ignition charge connected to the initiator therein, wherein the ignition charge is aligned with only one rocket motor of the multiple rocket motors, wherein the ignition charge is in a part but not all of the plenum;
wherein ignition of the initiator fills the plenum with hot gasses, wherein when the hot gasses have fully filled the plenum, the hot gasses enter the separate mounts to ignite separate ignition booster charges in each mount to provide ignition to each of the multiple rocket motors attached to the separate mounts.
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