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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2010
Alexander Buescher, Bremen, DE;
Michael Karwin, Weyhe, DE;
Frank Theurich, Hude, DE;
Airbus Operations GmbH, Hamburg, DE;
Abstract
A wing tip device for a wing includes a root and a tip, and the following determinant characteristics: the local dihedral of the wing tip device continuously increases or decreases from the root to the tip; the local sweep of the trailing edge continuously increases along its progression from the root to the tip of the wing tip device; where the local sweep of the leading edge continuously increases in the progression of the leading edge from the root to a first intermediate point; continuously decreases from the first intermediate point to a second intermediate point; and continuously increases from the second intermediate point at least to a region before of the tip of the wing tip device; as well as a wing comprising a wing tip device.