Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft sustentation – Sustaining airfoils
Reexamination Certificate
2006-10-03
2006-10-03
Barefoot, Galen (Department: 3644)
Aeronautics and astronautics
Aircraft sustentation
Sustaining airfoils
C244S05300R
Reexamination Certificate
active
07114685
ABSTRACT:
The invention relates to a wing, a wing, a tail unit or grid fins for a flying object moving with supersonic speeds. The wing comprises leading edges and tailing edges.According to the invention, the contour of at least one of the leading contour and the tailing contour has a meandered shape.By means of the inventive meandered contours the wave drag of the flying object may be decreased. The inventive design of the leading or tailing edges of a wing can be used for aircrafts, spacecrafts, missiles, projectiles and the like.
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Barefoot Galen
Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft-und
Thomas Kayden Horstemeyer & Risley LLP
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