| 摘要 |
The invention provides an aircraft (100, Fig 6) comprising an aircraft wing (10, Fig 1). The aircraft wing comprises a fixed wing (14, Fig 1) and a wing tip device (12, Fig 1) at the tip thereof. The wing tip device is configurable between a locked flight configuration and a ground configuration for use during ground-based operations. The aircraft wing further comprises a locking mechanism 16 for locking the folding wing tip device in the flight configuration. The locking mechanism comprises a locking hook 18 associated with one of the folding wing tip device and the fixed wing, and a locking pin 20 associated with the other of the folding wing tip device and the fixed wing, and a biasing device 28 and 30. In the locked configuration the locking pin is engaged with the locking hook and the biasing device acts to preload the locking mechanism. |
