Airbus Operations Gmbh

Nick Livings

Robert Ian Thompson

Matthew Harding

Stefan Napier

Stephen P Briancourt

Sylvain Boye

Nicola Marongiu

Robert Hart

An aircraft including a winghaving a fixed wingand a swing wing tip devicepivotably mounted about a pivotat the tip of the fixed wing, wherein the swing wing tip deviceis configurable between a flight configuration for use during flight and a ground configuration for use during ground-based operations, where the span of the aircraft wing is reduced. The swing wing tip deviceincludes a receiving portionarranged such that in the ground configuration, portions of the upper wing skin and lower wing skin of the fixed wing which are exposed in the flight configuration are at least partially received within the receiving portionof the swing wing

Swing wing tip

An aircraft comprises a wing, a wing tip device at the tip of the wing and an actuator. The actuator is arranged to effect movement of the wing tip device between a flight configuration for use during flight and a ground configuration in which the wing tip device is moved away from the flight configuration such that the span of the aircraft is reduced. The aircraft comprises a carriage guide, such as a rail, fixed relative to the wing, and a carriage arranged to move along the carriage guide as the wing tip device moves between the flight and ground configurations. The wing tip device is fixed relative to the carriage such that the path of the wing tip device, during movement of the wing tip device, between the flight and the ground configurations, is defined by the shape of the carriage guide.

Arrangement for moving a wing tip device between a flight configuration and a ground configuration

An aircraft wing comprises a fixed wing and a wing tip device at the tip thereof. The wing tip device is configurable between: a flight configuration for use during flight and a ground configuration for use during ground-based operations to reduce the span. The wing comprises an actuation assembly for moving the wing tip device. The actuation assembly is arranged to move the wing tip device in a two-stage movement comprising a first stage in which the wing tip device is translated away from the flight configuration in a linear movement only, and a second, subsequent stage, in which the wing tip device is rotated to the ground configuration.

Actuation assembly for moving a wing tip device on an aircraft wing

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