Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft sustentation – Sustaining airfoils
Patent
1995-06-06
1997-07-01
Kashnikow, Andres
Aeronautics and astronautics
Aircraft sustentation
Sustaining airfoils
244 327, 244 39, 244 46, 244218, B64C 338, B64C 356, F42B 1016
Patent
active
056428677
ABSTRACT:
An aerodynamic lifting and control surface comprising an external box structure that encloses an internal grid whose members are parallel to the box structure. The external box structure comprises four panels connected at their comers by spring hinges. When the hinges are unconstrained, the external box structure is compressed into a flat, thin parallelogram shape. The internal grid comprises a plurality of plates connected to each other and to the external box structure by flexible hinges. Control apparatus for use with an aerodynamic vehicle is also disclosed. The control apparatus comprises at least one aerodynamic lifting and control surface that is coupled to an actuator disposed within the vehicle and connected to the aerodynamic lifting and control surface for rotating it.
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Brown Charles D.
Denson-Low Wanda K.
Hughes Missile Systems Company
Kashnikow Andres
Mojica Virna Lissi
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