Releasable suspension for an airborne store
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Oct 21, 2003
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Jul 11, 2002
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Jan 4, 2002
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Jan 5, 2001
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An airborne store suspension and release arrangement includes two slender 'Tee' hangers located one on either side of a vertical plane through the center of the store. Each hanger has a narrow strut portion mounted on the store by one end and an enlarged cross section portion at the other end of the narrow strut portion. The enlarged cross section portion of each hanger is clamped by releasable clamps mounted in a store carrying aircraft. The store and the aircraft are formed with surfaces which abut one another when the store is suspended from the aircraft and the enlarged cross section portions of the hangers are clamped by the clamps. The arrangement of the hangers, the clamps and the abutting surfaces establishes a couple in reaction to a rolling moment to which the store is subjected during maneuvering of the aircraft. Only one such a slender `Tee` hanger is aligned with the geometrical center of the store in an alternative embodiment. Again, the combination of the hanger, its clamp and the abutting surfaces establishes a couple in reaction to such a rolling moment. In another embodiment, each of th enlarged cross section portions of the two slender 'Tee' hangers is slidably suspended from a respective overhead rail.
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