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7611099 Seal assemblies for use with drooped spoilers and other control surfaces on aircraft  
Aerodynamic seals for use with control surfaces on aircraft are described herein. In one embodiment, a seal assembly for use with an aircraft includes a first seal member and a second seal member....
7549605 Electric flight control surface actuation system for aircraft flaps and slats  
An aircraft flight control surface actuation system includes a plurality of electric motors-driven flap actuators, and a plurality of electric motor-driven slat actuators. The motor-driven...
7516921 Forward pivoted full flying control tail boom  
An aircraft motion control mechanism for regulating aircraft motion from a location remote from an aircraft body portion. The aircraft auxiliary control mechanism has at least one control surface...
7510151 Wing with extendable aerodynamic pivoted flaps  
A structure with at least one flap connected to a wing, including: at least one drive device; at least one actuating device including a gear device coupled to the at least one drive device and the...
7510150 Energy recovery apparatus and method  
An energy recovery and storage apparatus especially well adapted for use with flight control surfaces on airborne mobile platforms, such as aircraft. In one form the apparatus includes a ram-like...
7484694 Aircraft wing with extendible nose flap  
An aircraft wing including a wing box and a nose flap moveably connected to the wing box by first and second folding hinges. A first transverse link is pivotally connected to first portions of the...
7475854 Aircraft trailing edge devices, including devices with non-parallel motion paths, and associated methods  
Aircraft trailing edge devices, including devices with non-parallel motion paths, and associated methods are disclosed. A device in accordance with one embodiment includes a wing and an inboard...
7451948 Apparatus for deicing a surface of an aircraft  
An apparatus for deicing a surface of an aircraft includes a pair of adjacent movable surface elements that lie in a common plane and cover a portion of an aircraft. The pair of surface elements...
7448578 Aircraft with forward opening inlay spoilers for yaw control  
An aircraft comprises first and second wings positioned on opposite sides of a longitudinal axis with each of the first and second wings including an upper surface and a lower surface, wherein no...
7437955 Device for determining the rotation angle of a shaft in an aircraft  
Nowadays position pickup units are commonly used in order to measure the rotation position of a shaft for operating a landing flap or landing slat or a brake flap in an aircraft. In the case of...
7422177 Sealing device for a flap track in a belly fairing of an aircraft for a flap-actuating shaft  
Sealing device for the flap track for the flap-actuating shaft, in the belly fairing of an aircraft, with a top hollow body 1 and a bottom hollow body 7 which are flexibly compressible, each...
7410133 Miniature trailing edge effector for aerodynamic control  
Improved miniature trailing edge effectors for aerodynamic control are provided. Three types of devices having aerodynamic housings integrated to the trailing edge of an aerodynamic shape are...
7354022 Device for monitoring tiltable flaps on aircraft wings  
A device for monitoring tiltable flaps on aircraft wings including rotary sensors at the rotary axis of the flap and associated with each actuating element. A rotation sensor is connected to the...
7350750 Control system for airbrakes of an aircraft  
The present invention relates to a control system for aircraft airbrakes, which comprises control means of a continuous operating mode or of an incremental operating mode in nominal operation of...
7311288 Aircraft wing structure and a method for decreasing flight speed of the aircraft  
The invention provides a wing structure for an aircraft, including a top skin and a bottom skin defining a primary wing surface, the surface having a width, a length, a leading edge and a trailing...
7300021 Aerospace vehicle fairing systems and associated methods  
Aerospace vehicle fairing systems and associated methods, including fairings that house flap surface drive mechanisms on aircraft, are disclosed herein. One aspect of the invention is directed...
7275721 Arrangement for generating vortexes  
A spoiler and wing of an aircraft. A bottom surface of the spoiler has several longitudinal, elongated grooves. At least some of the grooves are equipped with one or more vortex generators....
7270305 Aircraft leading edge apparatuses and corresponding methods  
Aircraft and leading edge apparatuses and corresponding methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, an aircraft system includes an airfoil with a leading edge device that is movable among a retracted...
7258308 Method and apparatus for controlling airflow with a gapped trailing edge device having a flexible flow surface  
A method and apparatus for controlling airflow with a gapped trailing edge device having a flexible flow surface. The airfoil can include a first portion having a first leading edge, a first flow...
7229049 Unitized rotary actuator hinge fitting  
An apparatus and method for installing a plurality of rotary actuator segments in a device includes a unitary hinge fitting. The unitary hinge fitting includes a first side couplable to a control...
7229048 Aerodynamic control of a hypersonic entry vehicle  
A hypersonic vehicle having in one or more embodiments a control surface that is movable to a deployed position. The control surface is movable in a pivotal manner that establishes a gap between...
7226020 Apparatus for driving and adjusting flaps hinged to an aircraft  
Flaps, for example leading edge flaps and/or trailing edge flaps of an aircraft wing, are driven and adjusted by respective drive units. Drive shafts of neighboring flaps are coupled to each other...
7111810 Forward pivoted full flying control tail boom  
An aircraft motion control mechanism for regulating aircraft motion from a location remote from an aircraft body portion. The aircraft auxiliary control mechanism has at least one control surface...
7108230 Aircraft with topside only spoilers  
An aircraft with swept back wings and spoilers inlaid into the top surface near the tips of the wings. The aircraft also includes an elevator formed in the center back portion of the aircraft,...
7051982 Fairing arrangements for aircraft  
A fairing arrangement for bridging an aircraft fixed structure ( 14 ) and a control surface ( 10 ) hingedly mounted on and angularly displaceable with respect to the aircraft structure is provided,...
7051975 Aircraft flap or slat drive system with redundant drives and shaft drive lines  
An aircraft flap (or slat) drive apparatus includes first and second centralized drive units that respectively rotationally drive first and second drive lines in both wings. The first drive line...
7048234 Adaptive flap and slat drive system for aircraft  
A drive station includes two drives connected via drive transmissions to one or more flaps or slats of a flap/slat group. The drives may be mechanically coupled to a rotational shaft, with a shaft...
7014142 Low-drag rotor/wing flap  
Rotor/wing aircraft having a low-drag flap are disclosed. In one embodiment, a rotor/wing aircraft includes an elongated blade having a body portion and a flap portion. The body portion has first...
7004432 Aircraft flap extension mechanism  
An aircraft mechanism including a flap positioning mechanism comprising a carriage and track system suitable for use with variable radius or multiple curvature tracks.
6981676 Method and spoiler system for ensuring the aerodynamic continuity of the upper surface of an aircraft  
Method and spoiler system for ensuring the aerodynamic continuity of the upper surface of an aircraft wing. According to the invention, the spoiler 7 has a chord (C) of adjustable length and...
6974112 Deployment system for a moveable wing surface  
A deployment system for deploying a moveable wing surface ( 22 ) from a main wing section ( 8 ). The deployment system includes a plurality of swing arm assemblies ( 24,26 ) connecting the moveable...
6776376 Flight control surface actuation system  
A flight control surface actuation system has a plurality of actuators attached to one or more summing levers. Each summing lever has an actuator output point that is attached to the flight control...
6766981 Control system for alleviating a gust load on an aircraft wing  
Disposed on each wing of an aircraft adjacent the wing tip is at least one deflector mechanism for twisting the wings as part of a control system for alleviating a gust load on the wing. The wing...
6755375 Method and apparatus for controlling aircraft devices with multiple actuators  
Methods and apparatuses for controlling aircraft devices with multiple actuators. An apparatus in accordance with one embodiment of the invention includes a first actuator coupled to a first power...
6729583 Device for articulating a flap to an aircraft aerodynamic surface  
An articulation device for articulating a flap to an aircraft aerodynamic surface, the flap having its front edge facing a rear edge of the aerodynamic surface and the articulation device including...
6705570 Arrangement and associated system having an actuator and a tubular flap-drive member about the actuator  
An arrangement, and an associated system, in which an actuator is utilized to move a flap. Within the arrangement, an actuator conveys motive force from a motor to cause movement of the flap...
6666403 Force-producing apparatus  
A force-generating device employing a flared body and a surrounding shroud to define a duct of axially diminishing flow area defining a nozzle for accelerating and directing the discharge of a...
6659398 Two-brake torque limiting device  
The apparatus of the invention enables a two-brake torque limiting device to fix the position of one or more flaps and/or slats on an airplane wing when unplanned or abnormal conditions exist. The...
6644599 Mechanism for at least regionally adjusting the curvature of airfoil wings  
A variable wing section having an adjustable profile shape extending in the wing-span direction, includes a plurality of torsion boxes, which are positioned in the longitudinal direction, are...
6626401 Aft fuselage control system for forward lifting elevator aircraft  
A system providing aft fuselage flight controls on forward lifting elevator aircraft. My invention relates to aft fuselage controls on a forward lifting elevator aircraft, with the main lifting...
6530544 Device and mechanism for transmission of radial forces between the central and end regions of this device  
A device ( 22 ) fitted with ribs is placed on a cylindrical rod ( 20 ) so that it is fixed to it in bending. The device ( 22 ) is formed of at least three ribs connected to each other at their...
6511016 Spin-stabilized projectile with a braking device  
A spin-stabilised artillery projectile ( 11 ) can be easily subsequently fitted with an axially symmetrical aerodynamic braking device for reducing the ballistic trajectory if the tip ( 14 ) which...
6491261 Wing mounted aircraft yaw control device  
A wing mounted yaw control device is disclosed. The wing mounted yaw control device includes a spoiler hingedly mounted on a first wing surface and a deflector hingedly mounted on a second wing...
6483436 Method and apparatus for sensing skews and disconnects of adjacent movable components  
A sensor detects skewed adjacent movable component. The sensor may be used to detect harmful skews of aircraft control surfaces, such as slats or flaps on aircraft wings, which may be caused by an...
6481667 System and method for deflecting an aerodynamic control surface  
According to one embodiment of the invention, a system for deflecting an aerodynamic control surface includes a first piezoelectric actuator coupled to a first flexure member. The first flexure...
6474593 Guided bullet  
A projectile having a plurality of micro electromechanical (MEMS) devices disposed about the axis of flight for active control of the trajectory of the projectile. The MEMS devices each form an...
6474184 Tilt and swivel positioning device  
A tilt and swivel positioning device for positioning a servo flap in a rotor blade. The device contains a tilt element and a bearing element. The tilt element is swivellably attached to the bearing...
6467733 Aerodynamic control surface system  
A flight control system provides a maximized mechanical advantage when the load of the airstream on the airfoil is also at a maximum. A control surface is pivotally mounted for movement through a...
6466141 Skew detection system  
A skew detection system for use in sensing the occurrence of a skew condition in a system having a plurality of control surfaces located adjacent one another and which, in use, are driven to move...
6464175 Rotor blade operating device in airplane and flaperon operating device in airplane  
A flaperon operating device having a center pulley and a slider supported on a center shaft. When the center pulley and the slider are rotated about the center shaft, left and right driving pulleys...
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