SPRING-ERECTED TELESCOPIC WING SUPPORT STRUCTURE

摘要

SPRING-ERECTED TELESCOPIC WING SUPPORT STRUCTURE 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.