Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft structure – Passenger or cargo loading or discharging
Patent
1997-04-28
1999-05-18
Cherry, Johnny D.
Aeronautics and astronautics
Aircraft structure
Passenger or cargo loading or discharging
89 153, 294 8226, B64D1/02
Patent
active
059043237
ABSTRACT:
A store release system which includes a support member, such as a swaybrace, a store-nesting facility secured to the support member and articulated to facilitate orientation of the store-nesting facility to different positions in order to enable stores of different sizes to be nested thereagainst, and an ejection mechanism, such as a pneumatically or hydraulically-driven piston, for driving the support member from a retracted position to an extended position along a major axis (e.g., the yaw axis), in order to thereby release a store (e.g., a bomb or missile). The ejection mechanism is configured to drive the support member from the retracted position to the extended position with a vertical ejection force having a sufficient magnitude to counteract a laterally-directed force which would be required to unnest the store, to thereby constrain motion of the store in the yaw axis during an ejection cycle. In an exemplary embodiment, the store-nesting facility includes two or more spaced-apart footpads swivel-mounted to the underside of the support member.
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Foster John K.
Jakubowski, Jr. Thaddeus
Cherry Johnny D.
McDonnell Douglas Corporation
Powell Jr. Raymond H.J.
Westerlund Robert A.
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