Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft sustentation – Sustaining airfoils
Patent
1988-06-07
1989-08-22
Kyle, Deborah L.
Aeronautics and astronautics
Aircraft sustentation
Sustaining airfoils
244 328, F42B 1332
Patent
active
048588512
ABSTRACT:
A folding wing structure for a missile or other airframe comprises a supporting strut assembly including a leading strut and a trailing strut pivotally secured together at their common ends and pivotally mounted at spaced locations relative to the airframe at their opposite ends, the struts being moveable between a collapsed, storage position in which they are substantially colinear and an expanded, erect position in which they project radially out from the missile. A biassing device urges the struts into the erect position. A double walled, pocket-like wing member of flexible fabric material encloses the strut assembly and conforms substantially to the extended configuration of the struts, and a series of spaced, parallel reinforcing ribs extend chordwise across each wall of the wing member in its erect position between the leading and trailing struts.
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Kutschka Joseph D.
Mancini Steven A.
Carone Michael J.
Carroll Leo R.
General Dynamics Pomona Division
Kyle Deborah L.
Martin Neil F.
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