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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2017
Airbus Operations Limited, Bristol, GB;
Mark Shaun Kelly, Bristol, GB;
Stuart Alexander, Bristol, GB;
AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED, Bristol, GB;
Abstract
An aircraft wing having a fixed wing with a wing tip device. The wing tip device is movable between a flight configuration for use during flight, and a ground configuration for use during ground-based operations. The wing has a master flight control surface associated with the fixed wing and a slave flight control surface associated with the wing tip device. An interface between the master flight control surface and the slave flight control surface is arranged to provide a rigid connection between the master flight control surface and slave flight control surface when the wing tip device is in the flight configuration. Moving the master control surface about a control axis causes the slave control surface to be moved about the control axis. The interface is arranged to de-couple the slave and master control surfaces when the wing tip device is moved from the flight configuration into the ground configuration.