Aircraft wing with a wing tip device
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorsOliver Family, Keith Agmen, James Kirk, Robert Mills, Thomas Wilson
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AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorsOliver Family, Keith Agmen, James Kirk, Robert Mills, Thomas Wilson
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An aircraft including a wing with a fixed wing portion and a wing tip device rotatably hingedly attached at a fixed wing portion outboard end. The wing includes a wing fold mechanism configured to actuate the wing tip device to rotate relative to the fixed wing portion to at least three commanded and predetermined wing fold angles and to restrain rotational movement of the wing tip device at each commanded position. A first position corresponds to high-speed flying, a second position to ground-based operations and a third position to low-speed flying. The flying positions rotate the wing tip to a position where upper and lower wing tip surfaces are continuations of the upper and lower surfaces of the fixed wing, with a low-speed incidence angle being less than a high-speed incidence angle. The ground-based position reduces the wing span to the greatest degree of the three positions.
An aircraft comprising a wing having a fixed wing portion and a wing tip device that is rotatably attached about a hinge axis to the fixed wing portion at an outboard end, wherein the hinge axis is orientated at an acute angle H relative to an aircraft longitudinal axis X;
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