Abstract: The device comprises four identical assemblies evenly spaced apart about the vertical axis of a speed reducer (1), offset 90.degree. from each other and each comprising an isotropic flexible beam (4) carrying a beating weight (14) and connected by its ends to the fuselage, this beam being perpendicular to the vertical axis, and rigid triangulation means (9, 10) connecting the speed reducer (1) to the beam (4) so as transmit its forces and its moments to the beam in a plane parallel to an offset from said vertical axis of the speed reducer (1).

Abstract: An aircraft engine mount is disclosed which has removable struts attached between the front upper and lower portions of the engine and the airframe during servicing, and a front lower mount having a spherical bearing which permits the engine to pivot about a generally vertical axis at the front of the engine. A rear mounting ring attached to the engine is detachable from the airframe during servicing, accomplished by rotating the aft portion of the engine outward through an access door about an axis at the front of the engine. An angled load bearing pin attached to the rear portion of the engine supplements the rear mounting ring so as to transmit to the airframe the forward loads of the engine experienced during a crash.

Abstract: A payload retention system for securing and retaining a payload in a fixed docked position on a platform in a cargo bay of a space vehicle is disclosed which includes a plurality of latching assemblies 16 carried by platform 10 each of which includes a latching member A having a contoured spherical latch element 24. A plurality of payload latching elements B are carried by the payload having a complementary contoured spherical latch element 18. The latching elements 18 are carried in interlatching alignment with the latching members 24 of the latching assemblies 16 defining latch couplings C. Spherical latch element 18 has a convex latching surface 19 and spherical element 24 has a concave latching surface 25 which mate and couple with one another when interlatched. The spherical latch elements 18, 24 having their axes aligned with one another when interlatched whereby the payload is retained in a fixed docked position.

Abstract: A mounting device for mounting the exhaust casing of a turbojet engine on a rigid support structure connected with an aircraft, there being at least two flows, i.e., a primary flow in the exhaust casing and a secondary flow in a shroud which surrounds the casing and which is fastened to the support structure by a rigid ring. The device consists of a plurality of arms each having means to control its orientation.

Abstract: A vibration isolation system in which a supported body is supported from a vibration excitation body which is prone to vibrate at a predominant frequency and to impart such vibratory forces and motions to the supported body. The isolation system is of the antiresonant type and operable to provide vibration force and motion isolation of the supported body from the vibration excitation body both axially along and rotationally about three mutually perpendicular axes, thereby giving the supported body six degrees of vibration isolation from the vibration excitation body.

Abstract: An adjustable wedge fitting for sharing the thrust load of a jet engine. The fitting adapted for mounting on an air frame strut and a fan duct cowl of a jet engine nacelle. By attaching and adjusting a plurality of the wedge fittings along the sides of the air frame strut and the fan duct cowl, forward and reverse thrust loads from the engine may be conveyed evenly from the cowling to the air frame strut.