摘要 |
<p>A fuselage mounted flap drive is provided for supporting and controlling aircraft flaps (27) at their inboard end, the drive has a beam (28) mounted within the aircraft fuselage (26), a carriage (29) slidable along the beam, a first axle (31) held by the carriage for rotatably supporting the leading portion of the flap and a second axle (38) also held by the carriage for supporting a link (32) that sets the attitude of the flap so that as the carriage is moved along the beam, the flaps are increasingly deployed or retracted, the changing attitude of the flaps depending on the nature of the link.</p> |