Ordnance – Rocket launching – Having rocket-storage and transfer means
Patent
1980-06-13
1982-06-08
Brown, David H.
Ordnance
Rocket launching
Having rocket-storage and transfer means
89 1804, 89 1815, 244137R, F41F 306
Patent
active
043333842
ABSTRACT:
A rotary rack launcher for use in an aircraft for carrying missiles or other droppable or ejectable stores, the launcher being formed of a rimless wheel having a hub and spokes. The spokes are supported by shoes on their outer ends in a circular or near circular, including elliptical, track or tracks that are mounted in the aircraft. The track or tracks have cutaway portions through which the stored material is dropped or ejected. The missiles or other material are supported from the hub between adjacent spokes by a conventional bomb rack or ejection device, attached to the missile, for example, near its center of gravity. The launcher structure provides for the load path for support to be directly from the ejector device, through the hub, to the spokes, to the track or tracks, and to the airframe.
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Barnard Delbert J.
Brown David H.
Heberer Eugene O.
Pauly Joan H.
The Boeing Company
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