Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft sustentation – Sustaining airfoils
Patent
1998-04-28
1999-08-24
Jordan, Charles T.
Aeronautics and astronautics
Aircraft sustentation
Sustaining airfoils
244131, 244120, 244124, B64C 338
Patent
active
059414782
ABSTRACT:
A mechanism for quickly removing and installing the free wings and/or the tail booms of a freewing aircraft to the fuselage. The fuselage includes a free wing cross tube extending transversely through the fuselage at the spanwise axis, and each of the left and right free wings includes a support tube disposed therein, also along the spanwise axis, with a portion of the wing structural tube being received within the fuselage cross tube. A quick-release pin is insertable in holes disposed in both the structural tube and the cross tube when the holes are placed in alignment. A second cross tube extends transversely through the rear end of the fuselage at the tail boom pivot axis. At least a portion of each tail boom member is disposed in surrounding relationship to the cross tube. In a preferred embodiment, a quick-release pin is insertable in holes disposed in both the tail boom member portion and the cross tube when the holes are placed in alignment.
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Dinh Tien
Freewing Aerial Robotics Corporation
Jordan Charles T.
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