Patent ID: 6634599
Filing Date: 2003-10-21
Classification: B64D

Abstract:
An airborne store suspension and release arrangement including at least one hanger having a narrow strut portion and an enlarged cross-section portion, the narrow strut portion being adapted to be mounted by one end on a store so as to be upstanding therefrom and the enlarged cross section portion being at another end of the strut portion, the arrangement also including means adapted to be mounted in structure of store carrying aircraft and operable to embrace said hanger by embracing the enlarged cross section thereof whereby to retain the store suspended from the aircraft and means operable to effect release of the store from the embracing means in order to release the store from the aircraft, wherein means separate from said hanger are provided for operation in combination with the hanger to establish a couple in reaction to a rolling moment to which said store is subjected during maneuvering of said store carrying aircraft when said hanger is mounted on said store and said store is suspended from said aircraft structure, the enlarged cross section portion of said hanger being embraced by said releasable embracing means, wherein said aircraft structure is formed with a slot for the at least one hanger, that slot being just wide enough for the passage through of the respective hanger, the embracing means being within the aircraft structure, and wherein shutter means are provided for covering said at least one slot when no hanger extends through the slot.