Airbus Operations Gmbh

Llifon Williams

Christopher Payne

Robert Ian Thompson

Christopher Lynas

Xavier Hue

Heinz Hansen

Ross Salisbury

Simon W Topping

Robert McCormick

John Hobday

Marcus Rafla

Martin Mayneord

David Belfourd

Hugh Theobald

Timothy Evans

Simon Topping

Robert Mccormick

A leading edge structure for providing an aerodynamic surface of an aircraft is disclosed having a skin structure, the skin structure providing an outer aerodynamic surface and an inner surface, both surfaces extending in a chordwise and spanwise direction of the structure, and a plurality of structural members, each structural member being connected to the inner surface of the skin structure and extending in the chordwise direction along the inner surface, wherein the structural members are integrally formed with the inner surface of the skin structure. The disclosure is also related to an aircraft wing, aircraft tailplane, wing box structure, wing or wing structure and an aircraft including the leading edge structure.

Leading edge structure

An aircraft wing () has a wing tip device () joined thereto. The root () of the wing tip device () is joined to the tip of the wing () at a first connection (). An external strut () extends between the wing () and the wing tip device (), the strut () being joined to the wing () at a second connection (). The second connection () is inboard of the first connection, such that loadings on the wing tip device () generated during use, are transferred, via the strut (), to a location on the wing () that is inboard of where the root () of the wing tip device () is joined to the tip of the wing.

Aircraft wing with a wing tip device and a strut

An aircraft wing has a main wing element with a spar and a leading edge rib supported by the spar, a high lift device movably mounted to the main wing element, and an actuation mechanism with a drive shaft and a gear train. The gear train has a drive cog carried by the drive shaft, an actuator cog coupled to the high lift device, and one or more intermediate cogs mounted to the rib and coupled in series with the drive cog and the actuator cog so as to transmit torque from the drive cog to the actuator cog which moves the high lift device between a retracted position and an extended position in which the high lift device increases the camber of the wing. Sizes of the cogs in the gear train are selected so that the drive shaft rotates at a higher rate than the high lift device.

Leading edge rib assembly

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