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US 5,009,374 AGranted
Aircraft with releasable wings
OwnerCarl Manfredi, Antonina Manfredi +2inventors
InventorsCarl Manfredi, Antonina Manfredi, Dario P. Manfredi, Savia Giarraffa
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Abstract
This invention relates to aircraft and specifically to devices for disconnecting the winds in a rapid manner. The frame of the wings is atached to the frame of the fuselage with exploding bolts. The skin of the wings is secured to the skin of the fuselage with rivets that also explode or a burnable tape is placed under the skin to sever the skin. A control arrangement is provided that simultaneously ignites the exploding bolts and the rivets or the tape to disconnect the wings from the fuselage.
Claims9
An aircraft comprising
- a fuselage having a frame and an outer skin;
- a pair of wings extending from said fuselage, each said wing having a beam extending from said frame and an outer skin disposed in overlapping relation with said fuselage skin;
- a plurality of explodable bolts securing each beam to said fuselage frame;
- a plurality of circumferential rows of rivets securing each wing skin to said fuselage skin;
- a pair of burnable tapes, each said burnable tape being secured to an inner circumferential periphery of a respective wing skin between two of said rows of rivets and adjacent said fuselage;
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- means for exploding said bolts and igniting said tapes simultaneously to disconnect said wings from said fuselage.
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An aircraft comprising
- a fuselage having a frame and an outer skin;
- a pair of wings extending from said fuselage, each said wing having a beam extending from said frame and an outer skin disposed in overlapping relation with said fuselage skin;
- a plurality of explodable bolts securing each beam to said fuselage frame;
- a plurality of explodable rivets securing each wing skin to said fuselage skin;
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- means for exploding said bolts and said rivets simultaneously to disconnect said wings from said fuselage.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.