Aerospatiale Societe Nationale Industrielle

Thierry Bilange

Xavier Le Tron

Marie-Laure Divoux-Plantaz

Yvon Vigneron

An aircraft having a reduced-load wing structure is provided with a controllable canard stabilizer (5G, 5D) at the front end of the aircraft and a controller that controls the canard stabilizer. The controller generates a turn command corresponding to an increase in the lift of the canard stabilizer when, simultaneously, the turn command applied by the pilot to the elevational control surfaces (6G, 6D) exceeds a threshold and the measurement of the vertical acceleration of the aircraft exceeds a threshold.

Aircraft with reduced wing structure loading

Airplane (1) including a mainplane (3), elevator aerodynamic surfaces (4) and a front canard empennage adjustable in orientation. This airplane includes:

Transport airplane with front empennage

According to the invention, attenuator means (8) are provided, making it possible to limit the rate of rotation of the airplane on takeoff, so as to avoid the tail of the airplane striking the ground and to reduce the dispersion of the rotation rates.

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Tournefeuille, France

Thierry Bilange