A fairing 26’, 28’ for at least partially covering a protruding hinge 16’ of an aircraft’s folding wing tip (fig.3,12), preferably when the wing tip is in a locked flight configuration and the fairing extending from either the fixed wing or the wing tip. A fairing protruding from an upper wing skin surface 22’, located towards the distal end of a wing is also claimed. The hinge’s axis is preferably parallel to the line of flight of the aircraft, and located in the top half of the aircrafts wing. The aircraft may include stringers 37 mechanically attached to the upper skin, with the axis located in a neutral plane NA-A’ of the wing skin and stringers combined. The hinge may have lugs, ribs and pins and be partially made of aluminium. The fairing may extend and taper beyond the length of the hinge, to smooth the transition between the skin and the hinge in a chordwise direction. A lower fairing 40’,42’ may extend from a lower wing skin 30’,32’ to partially cover a protruding part of a locking device 36’, provided on the lower side of the wing, opposite the hinge.
Aircraft wing and wing tip device with fairing
2017-12-13
Patent
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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