公开(公告)号：US12017754B2

公开(公告)日：2024-06-25

申请号：US16816577

申请日：2020-03-12

Applicant: Bell Textron Inc. ,  Textron Aviation Inc.

Inventor： Kent E. Donaldson ,  Phillip A. Kendrick ,  Kyle Smolarek

IPC: B64C23/06 ,  B64C27/00 ,  B64C27/08 ,  B64C27/26 ,  B64C29/00 ,  B64U10/10

CPC classification number: B64C23/065 ,  B64C27/001 ,  B64C27/08 ,  B64C27/26 ,  B64C29/00 ,  B64C2027/002 ,  B64U10/10

Abstract: An aircraft includes a wing positioned below a vertical rotor, the wing extending in a transverse direction to a wingtip having an outboard face, and a turbulence feature located on the wingtip and oriented to induce turbulence in the rotor downwash flowing across the outboard face in a direction from a top surface of the wing to a bottom surface of the wing.