An exemplary aircraft includes a wing positioned below a vertical rotor, the wing extending to an outboard end, and an anhedral winglet extending from the outboard end through an angular transition to a tip, the anhedral winglet having an external surface exposed to the rotor downwash and the external surface is contoured to generate local wing lift in response to the rotor downwash.
DOWNLOAD REDUCING WINGLETS
2021-08-26
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge |
European Patent Office | 2022
|European Patent Office | 2022
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