Abstract: A thrust reverser cascade basket and method including an elongated metal frame having elongated metal strongbacks and metal transverse end portions joining opposite ends of respected strongbacks. Reinforced hard plastic is pressure injection molded on the strongbacks, and transverse vanes formed of the plastic extend between the strongbacks and are integral therewith. The strongbacks have openings having the plastic molded therein, the openings being between the vanes, and substantially all plastic knit lines are formed along strongback surfaces, spaced adjacent mid-span locations between the vanes. The vanes are free of the knit lines.

Abstract: A thrust reverser cascade basket and method including an elongated metal frame having elongated metal strongbacks and metal transverse end portions joining opposite ends of respected strongbacks. Reinforced hard plastic is pressure injection molded on the strongbacks, and transverse vanes formed of the plastic extend between the strongbacks and are integral therewith. The strongbacks have openings having the plastic molded therein, the openings being between the vanes, and substantially all plastic knit lines are formed along strongback surfaces, spaced adjacent mid-span locations between the vanes. The vanes are free of the knit lines.

Abstract: In an aircraft having a turbofan engine with a thrust reverser divided into two C-shaped cowl sections, a system for pivotally attaching each of the C-shaped cowl sections to the engine mounting strut for pivotal movement of the C-sections between a closed position adjacent the engine core and an open position spaced from the engine core, including first and second hinges cooperably attached to each half of the thrust reverser cowl and the engine mounting strut to define a hinge line associated with each cowl half. A third load transfer assembly is associated with each cowl half, each load transfer assembly having a first portion affixed to its associated engine cowl half and a second portion affixed to the engine mounting strut, both offset from the hinge line but within the contour of the engine cowl.

Abstract: A thrust reverser blocker door assembly for a fanjet engine (34) wherein a plurality of blocker doors (10) are disposed aerodynamically about a peripheral circumferential zone of a central fan duct (46) of the engine in a cruise configuration and are pivoted radially into an annular ring interrupting the fan duct in a thrust reversing configuration for diverting air radially outward and forward through a concentric bypass duct (48), each of the blocker doors (10) being secured for pivotal displacement by an articulated linkage (50) comprising a drag link (62) disposed for arcuate motion about a fixed pivot point (64) at its proximal end, an overcenter link (12) spanning the blocker door (10) and the distal end of the drag link (62) at a longitudinally translatable pivot point (70), and a biasing member (100) for tensioning the articulated linkage (50) and the blocker door (10) radially outward about the translatable pivot point (70) when in the cruise configuration.

Abstract: An over-center latching device for coupling two members by the operation of a handle with the use of one hand. The device has a rod having a T at one end for engaging a hook, the other end of the rod being pivotally engaged intermediate the ends of the handle. One end of the handle is pivotally engaged on a support member adjacent and spaced from the pivot point of the rod. The other end of the handle is adapted to be gripped by the operator for completing the latching and unlatching operation. The support member which is adapted to be secured to a fixed member has a concave cam surface facing the pivoted end of the rod. The pivoted end of the rod has a leaf spring extending therefrom toward the concave cam surface. To engage the latch, the operator grips the handle and rotates it on its pivot so that the leaf spring is moved into engagement with the end of the cam surface.