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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2019
Applicant:
Airbus Operations Limited, Bristol, GB;
Inventors:
Ben Commis, Bristol, GB;
Neil John Lyons, Bristol, GB;
Assignee:
Airbus Operations Limited, Bristol, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 23/06 (2006.01); B64C 3/14 (2006.01); B64F 5/00 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 23/069 (2017.05); B64C 3/14 (2013.01); B64F 5/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
An aircraft wing () including a main wing () and a wing tip device () at the tip of the main wing (), wherein the wing tip device () has a variation of leading edge droop with respect to unrolled span-wise position such that flow separation on the wing tip device () first occurs in an outboard region (O) of the wing tip device (). The leading edge droop of the wing tip device () may be a maximum in an outboard region (O) of the wing tip device.