Lord Corporation

Baptiste Narbon

Daniel Zameroski

Benjamin Bozon

Alexandre Kursner

Aircraft support structures, systems, and methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, an aircraft system includes a rotating component and a support (e.g. strut) that supports the rotating component. The support includes a locking assembly (P) that is configured to lock, automatically, an inner member () of the support with respect to an outer member () of the support for stiffening the support in response to reaching or exceeding a predetermined threshold amount of displacement, load, stress, or rotation. The aircraft support structures, systems, and methods herein utilize self-locking and self-unlocking supports (e.g. struts) for increasing or decreasing a stiffness of the support.

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Annecy le Vieux, France

Baptiste Narbon