Article: California Inventors Develop Fin Control Assembly

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- William W. Hsu of Diamond Bar, Calif., and Robert A. Wiseman of Lancaster, Calif., have developed a typical flight control system that utilizes control surfaces to control flight direction.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fin control assembly includes a housing, an arm configured to couple to a fin and to steer the fin relative to the housing, and a locking member disposed within the housing. The locking member is configured to lock the arm in a substantially fixed state to inhibit movement of the arm relative to the housing when the locking member is in an engaged position, and unlock the arm from the substantially fixed state to allow ...

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