Patent ID: 8714476

Claim:
A wing comprising: a pair of flexible skins; and a lock; in a combination with a fuselage to which the wing is coupled; wherein the skin portions each have a first end and a second end opposite the first end; wherein the first ends are spatially separated from one another by a gap; wherein the lock is able to selectively lock the skins together at a location that is closer to the second ends than it is to the first ends; wherein the lock includes a pair of lock parts that engage in a ratcheting fashion, with one of the parts having teeth, barbs, or tabs, that engage the other of the parts, allowing the wing to go from a stowed state to a deployed state, but not vice versa; and wherein the wing is wrapped about the fuselage when the wing is in the stowed state, with the fuselage on an inside of curves of the skins.