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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2015
Airbus Operations Limited, Bristol, GB;
Stuart Alexander, Bristol, GB;
John Randall, Bristol, GB;
AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED, Bristol, GB;
Abstract
A method of manufacturing a foldable aerodynamic structure, such as a wing, for an aircraft. The wing () including an inner region () and an outer region () rotatable relative to the inner region between a flight configuration and a ground configuration. The method includes designing the foldable aerodynamic structure by determining the location and orientation of an Euler axis of rotation () about which the outer region rotates to achieve the ground configuration and determining a cut plane (), perpendicular to that Euler axis, separating the inner and outer regions; and iteratively repeating this process until a preferred cut plane () is obtained that satisfies at least one design criteria.