An aircraft comprising a wing 10, having a fixed wing 12 and a swing wing tip device 14 pivotably mounted about a pivot 16 at the tip of the fixed wing, wherein the swing wing tip device is configurable between a flight configuration (figure 1); and a ground configuration (figure 2) for ground-based operations, wherein the swing wing tip device is swung rearwardly to reduce the wing span. The swing wing tip device comprises a receiving portion (48, figure 3) located between the upper (30) and lower (32) wing skins. The upper and lower wing skin portions of the fixed wing which are exposed in the flight configuration are at least partially received within the receiving portion of the swing wingtip device in the ground configuration. The front spars of the fixed wing and the swing wing tip device may at least partially overlap and lock together via pins and apertures in the flight configuration. The swing wing tip device may comprise an open box structure.
Swing wing Tip
2017-05-31
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge |
Tema Archive | 1973
|Emerald Group Publishing | 1973
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