Non-self-supporting hinged ladder

An extended ladder having a longitudinal axis and being removably joinable to a fuselage of an aircraft and configured to provide pilot access and egress to an open cockpit of the aircraft, the ladder comprising:

• a plurality of hingedly connected rung plates, each rung plate having opposed hinge edges with hinges generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and being configured to fanfold the plurality of rung plates into a footprint, each rung plate having a hole therethrough sized to allow a person's foot to rest upon a lower edge of the hole;
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• a first rung plate hingedly joined to a second rung plate of the plurality of rung plates;
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• an attachment means joined to the first rung plate and removably suspending the ladder from the fuselage.

A fanfoldable ladder having a longitudinal axis and being removably joinable to a fuselage of an aircraft and configured to provide pilot access and egress to an open cockpit of the aircraft, the extendable ladder comprising:

• a first rung plate having an attachment adapted to removably suspend the ladder from the fuselage of the aircraft;
• a second rung plate joined to the first rung plate by a hinge perpendicular to the longitudinal axis;
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• a plurality of successive rung plates joined to the second rung plate, wherein each of the first rung plate, second rung plate and successive rung plates are fanfoldably joineable in a series parallel to the longitudinal axis and have a hole therethrough sized to admit a person's foot to rest upon a lower edge of the hole, the fanfoldable ladder contacting the fuselage at only a single position when removably joined to and hanging from the fuselage.