Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

Yosuke Ueno

Kazuomi Yamamoto

Mitsuhiro Murayama

Yuzuru Yokokawa

Masataka Kohzai

Kazuki Nomura

Takeshi Nakagawa

Kenta Kumada

Kazuhide Isotani

Takahiro Toyoda

Kenji Hayama

Yoshitaka Kondo

Kensuke Hayashi

A hydrogen aircraft includes: an airframe including a fuselage and a wing; at least one propulsion system fixed to the airframe; a pressurized chamber disposed inside the fuselage; a pressure bulkhead that is disposed at a rear part of the pressurized chamber and has strength to withstand pressurization of the pressurized chamber; a hydrogen tank that is disposed in an accommodation section and stores liquid hydrogen, the accommodation section being installed behind the pressure bulkhead, outside the pressurized chamber, and inside the fuselage; and a supply line that supplies the liquid hydrogen stored in the hydrogen tank to the propulsion system.

Hydrogen aircraft

A leading-edge high-lift device according to an embodiment of the present invention is a leading-edge high-lift device that is deployable and retractable from/into a fixed leading edge of a main wing of an aircraft and includes: a leading edge portion; a trailing edge portion that forms a gap between a trailing edge portion and the main wing during deployment; a cusp portion formed at a lower edge of the leading edge portion; a lower surface portion formed between the cusp portion and the trailing edge portion; and a curved hump portion that is locally provided on a surface of the lower surface portion and protrudes toward the main wing in a cross-sectional shape perpendicular to a wing span direction of the main wing.

Leading-edge high-lift device, wing, and aircraft

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Kobe, Japan

Yosuke Ueno