Continuous skin leading edge slats are disclosed. A disclosed example leading edge slat for use with an aircraft includes a single-piece nose skin defining upper and lower external surfaces of the leading edge slat, where the single-piece nose skin is to extend between a fore end and an aft end of the leading edge slat, and a box spar coupled to an inner surface of the single-piece nose skin. The box spar includes lateral walls extending away from the inner surface of the single-piece nose skin. The lateral walls define at least one compartment of the box spar.
CONTINUOUS SKIN LEADING EDGE SLATS
2021-05-06
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
ACTUATING MECHANISM FOR TRAILING EDGE FLAPS AND LEADING EDGE SLATS
European Patent Office | 2019
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