An aircraft wing including a wing structure supporting a wing cover having an outer aerodynamic surface, and a pop-up spoiler unit including an actuation mechanism and a spoiler coupled to the actuation mechanism. The spoiler is moveable by the actuation mechanism to deploy through an aperture in the wing cover. The pop-up spoiler unit is mounted to the wing structure to be substantially isolated from wing bending deflections. The wing structure has a neutral plane which is substantially neither stretched nor compressed during bending of the wing structure. The pop-up spoiler unit is mounted to the wing structure at only two pin joints each having a respective pin axis about which the pop-up spoiler unit is substantially free to rotate, and each pin axis substantially lies in the neutral plane.
SPOILER
2024-08-01
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge |
SPOILER CONTROL DEVICE, SPOILER CONTROL METHOD, AND SPOILER CONTROL PROGRAM
European Patent Office | 2021
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