Embodiments of the present invention relate to an adaptable wing (112, 114) having a variable geometry for influencing aerodynamic performance, the wing (112, 114) comprising a jointed leading edge having a main pivot (116), and a wrist joint (118), with a wing arm (126, 128) therebetween, and a distal wing hand (122, 124) depending from the wrist joint (118); the wing (12, 114) being reciprocally actuable, via the main pivot (116) and wrist joint (118), between a first state having an extended wing planform and a second state having a tucked wing planform.
Variable geometry wing
2015-05-20
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge |
AIRCRAFT WITH VARIABLE-GEOMETRY RHOMBOHEDRAL WING STRUCTURE
European Patent Office | 2019
|Aircraft with variable-geometry rhombohedral wing structure
European Patent Office | 2021
|