Patent ID: 6986481

Claim:
An extendable wing system for a fluid-born body, comprising: a forward wing extending from a forward wing root to a forward wing tip, the forward wing having an airfoil profile in cross-section; an aft wing extending from an aft wing root to an aft wing tip, the aft wing having an airfoil profile in cross-section; the forward wing and the aft wing pivotably coupled together at a location outward of the forward wing root end the aft wing root; and a linkage mechanism translationally and rotationally coupled to the forward wing root and the aft wing root and configured to effect extension of the forward wing and the aft wing from a stowed position to a deployed position by translation of the forward wing root and the aft wing root in a same direction along a path, the forward wing root end the aft wing root located closer to a nose of the fluid-born body in the stowed position than in the deployed position.