Wing leading edge device and a wing having such a wing leading edge device
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorsStefan Bensmann, Marcus Erban, Martin Fees
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Abstract
A wing leading edge device includes a flow body having a front side, which is delimited by a first spanwise edge and a second spanwise edge, a back side, which is delimited by the first spanwise edge and the second spanwise edge, a front skin arranged on the front side, a back skin arranged on the back side, and at least one stiffening arrangement between the front skin and the back skin in the region of the first spanwise edge, wherein the front skin extends continuously and free from interruptions between the first spanwise edge and the second spanwise edge and covers the at least one stiffening arrangement.
Claims9
A flow body for an aircraft, the flow body comprising:
- a front side delimited by a first spanwise edge and a second spanwise edge;
- a back side delimited by the first spanwise edge and the second spanwise edge;
- a front skin arranged on the front side;
- a back skin arranged on the back side;
- and
- at least one stiffening arrangement from the front skin to the back skin in the region of the first spanwise edge, the at least one stiffening arrangement comprising a corrugated sheet material extending from the front skin to the back skin,
- wherein the front skin extends continuously and free from interruptions between the first spanwise edge and the second spanwise edge and covers the at least one stiffening arrangement.
A flow body for an aircraft, the flow body comprising:
- a front side delimited by a first spanwise edge and a second spanwise edge;
- a back side delimited by the first spanwise edge and the second spanwise edge;
- a front skin arranged on the front side;
- a back skin arranged on the back side;
- and
- at least one stiffening arrangement from the front skin to the back skin in the region of the first spanwise edge,
- wherein the front skin extends continuously and free from interruptions between the first spanwise edge and the second spanwise edge and covers the at least one stiffening arrangement, and
- wherein the at least one stiffening arrangement comprises a honeycomb core extending from the front skin to the back skin.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.