摘要 |
A mechanism and method for folding the wing of a tilt-rotor aircraft, having a rotatable load bearing member cooperatively disposed between a high point of the fuselage and the tilt-rotor wing, and a plurality of locking, load bearing pin joints disposed between the fuselage and the tilt-rotor wing, concentric to the rotatable load bearing member, and wherein the tilt-rotor wing may be stored by rotating the tilt-rotor wing, as a single segment, about the rotatable load bearing member, to a position substantially parallel to the fuselage, and wherein the wing may be locked in the flight configuration and the storage configuration with the same pin joints.
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