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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2014
Learjet Inc., Wichita, KS (US);
C&d Zodiac Inc., Huntington Beach, CA (US);
William A. Goings, Derby, KS (US);
Eric Long, St-Lazare, CA;
LEARJET INC., Wichita, KS (US);
C&D ZODIAC, INC., Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Abstract
A door for an aircraft includes a first panel divisible into at least two first slats that are releasably connected to one another, a first tensioning cable attached between the at least two first slats, and a first tensioner connected to the first tensioning cable and being operative to apply a first tension thereto, thereby permitting the first tensioning cable to hold the at least two first slats together to form the first panel and to release the first tension in the first tensioning cable upon occurrence of a release action, thereby permitting the at least two first slats to dissociate from one another so that the first panel fragments.