Aircraft rotating wing seal and method therefor

Details Aircraft rotating wing seal and method therefor Aircraft rotating wing seal and method therefor

1986-07-28

1988-01-19

Barefoot, Galen

Aeronautics and astronautics

Aircraft sustentation

Sustaining airfoils

244 49, 244130, B64C 356

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047200618

ABSTRACT:
A method for sealing a gap between an aircraft fuselage and a wing turntable mounted thereon while in the inflight position. A seal element having wing attached and fuselage attached sections is positioned in the gap and each section is configured to have forward and rearward portions in the direction of rotation of the wing from the inflight to a storage position the forward motion of the fuselage attached section being at least 1% less thick in a direction generally parallel to an axis of rotation of the wing than the rearward portion of the fuselage attached section.

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patent: 555726 (1896-03-01), Hugo
patent: 1317960 (1919-10-01), Cobb
patent: 1614564 (1927-01-01), Lynch
patent: 3155344 (1964-11-01), Voyt

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