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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2018
Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., Fort Worth, TX (US);
Eric Stephen Olson, Fort Worth, TX (US);
David Russell Bockmiller, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Textron Innovations Inc., Providence, RI (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods include providing an aircraft with a fuselage and a wing assembly rotatable relative to the fuselage about a stow axis between a flight position and a stowed position. The aircraft includes a gearbox having a retractable driveshaft that selectively engages the mid-wing gearbox via axially translatable motion along a rotation axis when the wing assembly is in the flight position. The retractable driveshaft also selectively disengages the mid-wing gearbox in the flight position to allow selectively rotation of the wing assembly about the stow axis from the flight position to the stowed position resulting in the mid-wing gearbox being misaligned with the retractable driveshaft when the wing assembly is in the stowed position.
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