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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2005
Applicant:
Erich Schulein, Scheden, DE;
Inventor:
Erich Schulein, Scheden, DE;
Assignee:
Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft-und, Bonn, DE;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 21/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention relates to a wing, a wing, a tail unit or grid fins for a flying object moving with supersonic speeds. The wing comprises leading edges and tailing edges. According to the invention, the contour of at least one of the leading contour and the tailing contour has a meandered shape. By means of the inventive meandered contours the wave drag of the flying object may be decreased. The inventive design of the leading or tailing edges of a wing can be used for aircrafts, spacecrafts, missiles, projectiles and the like.