View Full Version : Back to the future - Airbus patents wing warping!
Tallbloke
15th Mar 2005, 11:17
From this week's Flight, but not in the magazine, only online. Briefly Airbus has patented a method of warping and the associated sensing required.
As an aside, it would appear that the project was EU funded, but Airbus get the patent, which I think is very sad given the EU position on subsidies.
The link is here (http://www.flightinternational.com/fi_issue/is_display_free.asp?txtId=195236&txtSnip=&Code=107&txtPageNo=1&txtPageSize=10&txtTotalPages=1&txtTotalRecs=3) .
...just for the record, it is in the magazine. P.27
BossEyed
16th Mar 2005, 01:39
Anyone recall the F-111 fitted with NASA's Mission Adaptive Wing (http://www.stormingmedia.us/76/7642/A764202.html) during the mid-80s?
There's nothing new under the sun!
Composite construction, Mission Adaptive Wing, Relaxed Static Stability, prone piloting position ; those Wright Bros really were 21st Century pioneers ;)
(After viewing the link, it's not wing warping per se that Airbus have patented, but rather the method of achieving same using articulating winglets. Snazzy.)
Blacksheep
16th Mar 2005, 03:26
You missed out canard configuration BossEyed
The Wrights also pioneered catapult launching, but left the floaty boaty bits to naval architects.
dusk2dawn
16th Mar 2005, 04:57
Tallbloke, the term funded only refers to how financing was obtained but not to the conditions attached.
BossEyed
16th Mar 2005, 18:43
You missed out canard configuration BossEyed
So I did - how careless of me :O
IMMELMAN
20th Mar 2005, 22:59
IF 'FIRST FLIGHT' WAS ANYTHING TO GO BY, THE WRIGHTS WERE ALSO ON TO WINGLETS AND BEING CAREFUL WITH RUDDER INPUTS - AS YOU SAID : 'NOTHING IS NEW' - sorry to shout!:D