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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2020
Applicants:
Bell Textron Inc., Fort Worth, TX (US);
Textron Aviation Inc., Wichita, KS (US);
Inventors:
Kent E. Donaldson, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Phillip A. Kendrick, Wichita, KS (US);
Kyle Smolarek, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Assignee:
Textron Innovations Inc., Providence, RI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 23/06 (2006.01); B64C 27/00 (2006.01); B64C 27/08 (2023.01); B64C 27/26 (2006.01); B64C 29/00 (2006.01); B64U 10/10 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 23/065 (2013.01); B64C 27/001 (2013.01); B64C 27/08 (2013.01); B64C 27/26 (2013.01); B64C 29/00 (2013.01); B64C 2027/002 (2013.01); B64U 10/10 (2023.01);
Abstract
An aircraft includes a wing positioned below a vertical rotor, the wing extending in a transverse direction to a wingtip having an outboard face, and a turbulence feature located on the wingtip and oriented to induce turbulence in the rotor downwash flowing across the outboard face in a direction from a top surface of the wing to a bottom surface of the wing.