Folding Wingtips for Improved Roll Performance

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Folding Wingtips for Improved Roll Performance

Healy, Fintan / Cheung, Ronald / Neofet, Theodor / Lowenberg, Mark / Rezgui, Djamel / Cooper, Jonathan / Castrichini, Andrea / Wilson, Tom

Abstract

Future aircraft designs look set to use longer wingspans to increase the aspect ratio and therefore overall aerodynamic efficiency of the airframe. Such larger wingspans also reduce roll rates and require increased control surface area to achieve the roll maneuver requirements for certification. In this work, the effect of using flared folding wingtips (FFWTs) on the roll performance of simple aircraft wings is investigated numerically and experimentally. A unique rolling rig is designed, manufactured, and tested, with a series of steady roll and transient tests performed for different wingspans, with and without folding wingtips. It is shown that the use of FFWTs on aircraft wings can enable improved aerodynamic performance due to the increased span while also significantly reducing the aerodynamic damping due to roll, such that the roll performance of a wing incorporating FFWTs is comparable to that of one without the additional span.

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Dokumentinformationen

Titel :

Folding Wingtips for Improved Roll Performance

Beteiligte:

Healy, Fintan (Autor:in) / Cheung, Ronald (Autor:in) / Neofet, Theodor (Autor:in) / Lowenberg, Mark (Autor:in) / Rezgui, Djamel (Autor:in) / Cooper, Jonathan (Autor:in) / Castrichini, Andrea (Autor:in) / Wilson, Tom (Autor:in)

Erschienen in:

Journal of Aircraft ; 59 , 1 ; 15-28

Erscheinungsdatum :

2021-07-30

Format / Umfang :

14 pages

ISSN :

1533-3868

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.2514/1.C036372

Medientyp :

Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)