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A rotary rack launcher for use in an aircraft for carrying missiles or other droppable or ejectable stores, the launcher being formed of a rimless wheel having a hub and spokes. The spokes are supported by shoes on their outer ends in a circular or near circular, including elliptical, track or track

A rotary rack launcher for use in an aircraft for carrying missiles or other droppable or ejectable stores, the launcher being formed of a rimless wheel having a hub and spokes. The spokes are supported by shoes on their outer ends in a circular or near circular, including elliptical, track or tracks that are mounted in the aircraft. The track or tracks have cutaway portions through which the stored material is dropped or ejected. The missiles or other material are supported from the hub between adjacent spokes by a conventional bomb rack or ejection device, attached to the missile, for example, near its center of gravity. The launcher structure provides for the load path for support to be directly from the ejector device, through the hub, to the spokes, to the track or tracks, and to the airframe.

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A rotary rack launcher, comprising: a rotatable hub, spaced spokes extending radially outwardly from said hub, shoes extending from the outer ends of said spokes, a track extending generally peripherally around said spokes and said shoes, said shoes being adapted to ride on and be secured to said tr

A rotary rack launcher, comprising: a rotatable hub, spaced spokes extending radially outwardly from said hub, shoes extending from the outer ends of said spokes, a track extending generally peripherally around said spokes and said shoes, said shoes being adapted to ride on and be secured to said track so that said hub, said spokes, and said shoes can be moved relative to said track and be supported thereby, means attached to said track for securing said track to an aircraft so that said hub has its axis transverse to a plane through said shoes, said track being cutaway peripherally so that a launch may be made from a lower portion thereof below said axis, said cutaway portion of said track being along the periphery sufficiently to extend between two adjacent spokes, and means adjacent said hub and the inner ends of said spokes for supporting launchable material between each pair of consecutive spokes, whereby the loadpath for material launchable through said cutaway supported between a pair of adjacent spokes is directly through said means adjacent said hub, through the hub, to the spokes, to the track, and to the aircraft.