Abstract: A hydraulic actuation system for an aircraft control surface such as an elevon. A pair of spaced pivot points are provided to alternately rotate the control surface either clockwise or counterclockwise.

Abstract: A radar decoy ribbon packed within a dispenser body is launched from an aircraft by creating, within a launch tube, gas pressure sufficient to expel a frangible retaining plug from the outer end of the tube, driving the dispenser body into the airstream. The body has a pair of drag vanes which open in the air stream. As the dispenser recedes from the craft, the ribbon, one end of which is attached to the aircraft by a towline, is paid out of the body. Once the ribbon is fully deployed, a drogue maintains tension on the ribbon until the towline is severed.

Abstract: An improved control system for the aileron segment of a combined flap and aileron (flaperon) wherein the flaperon, supported, extended and retracted by conventional means, is described. It consists of a splined shaft rotatably mounted on an aircraft wing, its longitudinal axis being substantially aligned with the extension and retraction path of the flap. A transfer gear box slidably engages the splined shaft and is supported by a roller assembly engaging a support track which is mounted in the wing and runs substantially parallel to the splined shaft. The transfer gear box incorporates gears to transfer rotation of the splined shaft, via a second angularly adjustable shaft, to an aileron segment rotation mechanism located on the flaperon at the axis of rotation of the aileron segment.

Abstract: A hydro-ski craft in which load alleviation is attained by reducing the effective wetted area of the planing surfaces at high speeds, and in which elongated flaps extending longitudinally of the craft are mounted to swing about longitudinal axes between generally horizontal planing positions and upwardly swung retracted positions. Spray control dams may be carried by the flaps to themselves automatically swing between inactive and active positions in response to upward swinging movement of the flaps.

Abstract: A ski-type water borne craft adapted to plane along the surface of a body of water and having two stabilizing elements spaced laterally apart and mounted for upward and downward movement relative to one another in a relationship providing roll forces and giving lateral stability to the craft, with the stabilizing elements preferably being a pair of swinging flaps hinged to the after ends of two vertically shiftable hydroskis.

Abstract: A hydro-ski craft in which load alleviation is attained by reducing the effective wetted area of the planing surfaces at high speeds, and in which elongated flaps extending longitudinally of the craft are mounted to swing about longitudinal axes between generally horizontal planing positions and upwardly swung retracted positions. Spray control dams may be carried by the flaps to themselves automatically swing between inactive and active positions in response to upward swinging movement of the flaps.