Patent classifications
B64C9/146
Aircraft assembly with moveable device and panel displaced from moveable device
An aircraft assembly is disclosed having a cover with an outer aerodynamic surface and an aperture with a stop adjacent an edge of the aperture, and a moveable device for extending through the aperture in the cover. The moveable device carries a panel attached to the moveable device by a plurality of leaf springs. The assembly is configured so that when the moveable device is moved towards a retracted position the panel bears against the stop forming a substantially flush surface with the outer aerodynamic surface of the cover surrounding the aperture. The panel is displaced from the moveable device by elastic deformation of at least some of the leaf springs.
Spoiler
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.