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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 1986
Filed:
Feb. 10, 1982
Anthony DiTommaso, Upland, CA (US);
Ronald T Inglis, Laguna Beach, CA (US);
Richard C Worley, Pomona, CA (US);
Ramon J Renda, Montclair, CA (US);
General Dynamics Pomona Division, Pomona, CA (US);
Abstract
A wing support structure for a self-erecting collapsible wing includes a telescoping strut assembly including a leading strut and a trailing strut each pinned at an inner end to fixed pins on a base support structure and pinned to a common pivot pin at the outer end and each strut being telescoping for retraction to a colinear position and spring biased to an outward fully deployed position. Each strut includes inner and outer tubular strut members in which is confined a compression spring with the inner and outer members including an antirotation lock and an anticollapse lock.