Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft sustentation – Sustaining airfoils
Patent
1988-03-16
1989-06-13
Basinger, Sherman D.
Aeronautics and astronautics
Aircraft sustentation
Sustaining airfoils
244326, 244327, 244130, F42B 1332
Patent
active
048385026
ABSTRACT:
A cavity in an airframe from which an airfoil is deployed is automatically closed to reduce aerodynamic drag by a fairing element hinged to the force and aft cavity edges and resiliently deformable from an unbent aerodynamic position outside the cavity to a bent position within the cavity. The non-deployed airfoil overlies the bent fairing element and retains the fairing in a bent position against the resilient force tending to restore it to the unbent position, until airfoil deployment.
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Basinger Sherman D.
Brahan Thomas J.
The Boeing Company
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