A wing apparatus and aircraft are described providing greater maneuverability and efficiency for vertical takeoff and landing vehicles. Use of a fowler flap is shown in combination with a sliding panel. The sliding panel can nest within a wing similar to a fowler flap. During vertical maneuvers the sliding panel can be moved forward and on top of the wing. This can alleviate download during vertical maneuvers while minimizing drag as forward flight begins.
Sliding panel for download alleviation on high-speed VTOL aircraft
2024-01-02
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge |
Sliding Panel for Download Alleviation on High-Speed VTOL Aircraft
European Patent Office | 2023
|Design of high speed VTOL aircraft
Engineering Index Backfile | 1965
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