Ordnance – Mounts – Aircraft type
Patent
1992-11-24
1994-02-01
Johnson, Stephen M.
Ordnance
Mounts
Aircraft type
89 3722, 89 3314, F41A 2300
Patent
active
052824101
ABSTRACT:
A high strength ammunition magazine box is externally mounted on the side of an aircraft by a support strut structure and is adapted to store a longitudinally serpentined ammunition belt which may be fed out to a machine gun also externally supported on the aircraft. The box has inboard and outboard side wall panels and a bottom wall panel, each of a honeycombed metal construction, with front and rear edges of the panels being epoxied into channels formed in solid metal front and rear end wall plates. A honeycombed metal lid panel is pivoted to the open upper end of the box and may be releasably held in a closed position by a spring-loaded latch bar. With the lid panel closed, a specially designed reinforcement structure securely interlocks the lid panel to upper portions of the inboard and outboard side wall panels so that relative front-to-rear movement therebetween is strongly resisted, in shear, by the lid panel. In one embodiment of the magazine box, recessed handles are provided on the exposed front and rear end wall plates to facilitate manual transport of the box. In another embodiment of the magazine box, a hollow fairing structure is pivotally secured to the front end plate and releasably latched over a specially designed front carrying handle accessible through an arcuate slot formed in the convexly curved front side of the fairing structure.
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General Electric, Vulcan Gun Systems, Jul. 1, 1971.
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