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Ultralight composite wing structure

  • US 4,538,780 A
  • Filed: 09/26/1983
  • Issued: 09/03/1985
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/26/1983
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A composite wing structure, the structure comprising:

  • a wing body made of a lightweight foam material and the like;

    a reinforced plastic wing skin, the skin disposed around the body of the wing; and

    a plurality of longitudinal tendons running along the length of the body of the wing and adjacent the wing skin, the tendons including a plurality of individual tendon members joined together end to end by plastic shear lugs adhesively bonded to each other, the lugs extending laterally outward into the foam body for transferring tension loading along the length of the tendons to shear loading in the foam body of the wing structure.

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