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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2004
Hans Lonsinger, Langenau-Albeck, DE;
Juan Perez-sanchez, Bad-Aibling, DE;
Hans Lonsinger, Langenau-Albeck, DE;
Juan Perez-Sanchez, Bad-Aibling, DE;
Airbus Deutschland GmbH, Hamburg, DE;
Abstract
A wing has a changeable profile, and extends in a wing chord direction and perpendicularly thereto in a wingspan direction. The wing has a first cover skin and a second cover skin spaced apart from one another with spars therebetween. The wing includes a leading edge region and a trailing edge region opposite one another in the wing chord direction, and a wing tip region at the end of the wing in the wingspan direction. The wing further includes a flexible region that connects the wing tip region to the rest of the wing, and that is adapted to vary the profile of the wing in a direction that includes a component in the wing chord direction and a component in the wingspan direction.