Icon Aircraft, Inc.

Scott Bledsoe

Jon Karkow

Matthew Gionta

Paul H Nicholas

James Crocoll

An aircraft wing folding system folds an outboard wing section relative to an inboard wing section between a deployed position and a stored position in two discrete motions where each motion has an independent load path separate of the loading of the wing experienced by in-flight aerodynamic forces. The wing-fold mechanism of the present invention includes a fold assembly comprising a twist component and a fold component operable to fold the outboard wing section from the deployed position to the stored position that remains substantially unloaded with respect to in-flight aerodynamic forces when the wing is in the deployed or flight configuration.

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Bluffton, SC, United States of America

Scott Bledsoe