In a craft, apparatus for projecting into position beneath the craft from an enclosure within said craft an object having trunnions projecting from opposite sides thereof, said apparatus comprising a cradle shaped to fit against the sides of said object, and including a pair of spaced forked downwardly extending guides for accommodating said trunnions, each of said guides being outwardly flared at its lower end, a superstructure projecting above said cradle, guide rollers mounted on said superstructure, a power-operated cable drum mounted within said enclosure, a cable extending from said drum and around said guide rollers and attached at its free end to said object, a linkage connecting said cradle to said craft, and power means for moving said cradle between a retracted position, in which it is housed within said enclosure, and a projected position in which the flared lower ends at least of said guides project beneath said craft.
U.S. Patent Specifications
Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology ; 31 , 5 ; 154
1959-05-01
1 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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