Steven A Mancini

US Patent:

48588512, Aug 22, 1989

Filed:

Jun 7, 1988

Appl. No.:

7/203200

Inventors:

Steven A. Mancini - Claremont CA
Joseph D. Kutschka - Alta Loma CA

Assignee:

General Dynamics Pomona Division - Pomona CA

International Classification:

F42B 1332

US Classification:

244327

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.