Western Gear Corporation

William R Carter

Gary J Carpenter

Larry G Ellis

An on-board aircraft loading apparatus including an improved cargo platform and a simplified suspension frame therefor and improved hoist means for lifting and lowering the cargo platform with respect to the suspension frame.

Aircraft loading apparatus

A store ejection apparatus having fluid energy accumulator means for receiving a fluid charge during system pressurization for subsequent supplying of the fluid charge to the ejectors during the ejection of a store.

Hydraulic ejector

A stores arming trigger unit for use in airborne launching of stores and including improved means for selection of armed or unarmed launch modes. Such improved means consists of an axially shiftable elongated shaft which is normally biased into a safe launch position, but which shaft is selectively actuatable to move into a live launch position by actuation of a movable plunger of a solenoid.

Airborne stores arming trigger unit

An airborne stores arming trigger unit and more particularly an arming trigger unit used in conjunction with bombs and the like which are carried by military aircraft and which arming trigger unit includes improved means for better insuring an unarmed drop of bombs from such aircraft.

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Jamestown, ND, United States of America

William R Carter