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A blade seal (20) for an aircraft has a mounting structure (22). A composite blade (26) is attached to the mounting structure (22). The composite blade (26) has a plurality of holes (28). An elastomer substance (30) is used to fill the plurality of holes (28).
1. A blade seal for an aircraft comprising:
a mounting structure;
a composite blade attached to the mounting structure, the composite blade having a plurality of holes; and
an elastomer substance filling the plurality of holes.
2. The blade seal of claim 1, wherein the mounting structure is made from a composite.
3. The blade seal of claim 1, wherein the plurality of holes are strips.
4. The blade seal of claim 3, wherein the strips run perpendicular to the mounting structure.
5. The blade seal of claim 1, wherein the mounting structure is attached to the aircraft adjacent to a control surface.
6. The blade seal of claim 1, wherein the composite blade had a wedge shape.
7. The blade seal of claim 6, wherein a thick edge of the wedge shape is adjacent to the mounting structure.
8. The blade seal of claim 7, further including an orifice extending from a thin edge to one of the plurality of holes.
9. The blade seal of claim 1, further including a stretchable covering encasing the composite blade.
10. The blade seal of claim 1, wherein the elastomer substance encases the composite blade.
11. A blade seal for an aircraft, comprising:
an attachment structure;
a flexible wedge blade extending from the attachment structure, the flexible wedge blade having a plurality of gaps; and
an elastomer material covering the flexible wedge blade.
12. The blade seal of claim 11, further including a stretchable covering encasing the elastomer material.
13. The blade seal of claim 11, further including a plurality of slots, each of the plurality of slots extending from a tip of the flexible wedge blade to each of the plurality of gaps.
14. The blade seal of claim 11, wherein the flexible wedge blade is made from a composite.
15. A blade seal for an aircraft, comprising:
a mounting structure;
a flexible webbed blade extending from the mounting structure; and
an elastomer substance covering the flexible webbed blade.
16. The blade seal of claim 15, further including a flexible covering over the elastomer substance.
17. The blade seal of claim 15, further including a slot extending into a tip of the flexible webbed blade.
The present invention relates generally to the field of aircraft and more particularly to a blade seal for an aircraft.
All aircraft employ control surfaces on the wings, tail or fuselage. These control surfaces take the form of ailerons, leading edge flaps, rudders, elevators and others. These control surfaces are pivoted to provide a control moment. Gaps form between the control surface and the aircraft, when the control surface is pivoted. These gaps allow aerodynamic spillage reducing the effectiveness of the control surface. Present aircraft use preformed composite blade seals, that are placed over the hingeline edge of the control surface to reduce the aerodynamic spillage. The blade seals are preformed to have sufficient preload to keep against the control surfaces during flight operations. As the control surface is pivoted against the composite blade seal, the seal is bent to conform to the control surface. Unfortunately, present blade seals can be very stiff requiring significant actuation force by the control surface to bend. This problem is particularly acute where the moldline of the aircraft curves in the area of the hingeline.
Thus there exists a need for a blade seal that does not require a large actuation force to bend.
A blade seal for an aircraft that overcomes these and other problems has a mounting structure. A composite blade is attached to the mounting structure. The composite blade has a plurality of holes. An elastomer substance is used to fill the plurality of holes.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an aircraft;
FIG. 2 is a top view of a blade seal for an aircraft according to the invention;
FIG. 3 is a cross sectional view of the blade seal of FIG. 2 taken along the A--A line; and
FIG. 4 is an end view of an embodiment of the blade seal.
An aircraft 10 is shown in FIG. 1. The aircraft 10 has a number of control surfaces 12 that require blade seals. A blade seal 20 according to the invention is shown in FIG. 2. The blade seal 20 has a mounting structure 22. The mounting structure 22 has a plurality of attachment provisions 24. A composite blade (flexible wedge blade, flexible webbed blade) 26 extends out from the mounting structure 22. The blade 26 covers the hingeline of the control surface. The composite blade 26 has a plurality of holes (plurality of gaps) 28 that in one embodiment are strips extending perpendicularly from the mounting structure 22. An elastomer substance (elastomer material) 30 is used to fill in the plurality of holes 28.
In one embodiment the elastomer substance 30 encases the blade 26 (See FIG. 3). The composite blade 26 has a wedge shape, where the thick edge 32 is adjacent to the mounting structure 22. In one embodiment the mounting structure 22 and the blade 26 are form out of a composite. A flexible elastic material (stretchable covering) 34 encases the flexible blade 26. In one embodiment, the flexible elastic material 34 is a metalized knit fabric. In one embodiment, the metalized knit fabric is a warp knit of fabric made from polyamide nylon fibers. In addition, the fabric may contain a small amount of elastic polyurethane fiber. Typically an environmental coating is the applied over the fabric. The environmental coating is an elastomeric coating, which can be in the form of fluorosilicones, fluoroelastomers, silicones, thermoplastic elastomers, urethanes or other viable elastic materials.
FIG. 4 is an end view of another embodiment of the flexible blade 26. The tip (shown in white) 36 has a plurality of orifices 38. The orifices 38 extend from the tip (thin edge) 36 to the plurality of holes 28. The orifices are also filled with an elastomer substance. The blade seal shown in FIGS. 2-4 requires significantly less actuation force than previous designs. One of the reasons for the lower actuation force is the wedge shape of the flexible blade 26. The wedge shape causes the tip to require less actuation force for the same displacement than nearer the base 32. As a result, the portion of the blade being displaced the farthest requires the least actuation force. A second reason for the lower actuation force is the plurality of holes 28 or webbed design of the blade 26. The plurality of holes 28 reduce the force required for deflection due to the removal of material. The elastomer 30 filling the holes is significantly less stiff than the surrounding blade 26 and does not transmit the force. Another advantage of the holes 28 is to allow twisting of the blade when the aircraft moldline is curved along the hingeline of the control surface. Under this circumstance the blade 20 has to both deflect and twist. The holes 28 provide stress relieving sections that allow the stress caused by twisting to be relieved by the holes 28. Since the elastomer material filling the holes 28 is significantly less stiff than the composite blade 26, it does not transmit the stress of the twisting. In the embodiment with the orifices 28, the stress of twisting is further relieved by the slits (plurality of slots) 38.
Thus there has been described a blade seal for an aircraft that significantly reduces the actuation force necessary to bend the blade seal when a control surface is actuated. While the invention has been described in conjunction with specific embodiments thereof, it is evident that many alterations, modifications, and variations will be apparent to those skilled in the art in light of the foregoing description. Accordingly, it is intended to embrace all such alterations, modifications, and variations in the appended claims.
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Meet the longshot Kenyan presidential candidate everybody loves
- By Neha PaliwalNeha Paliwal is the Editorial Assistant for Democracy Lab.
As James Verini notes in his dispatch from Nairobi this weekend, Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta are the frontrunners in Kenya's closely watched presidential election on Monday. But one other candidate has been garnering the lion's share of the laughs, if not actual votes. After the last election sparked ethnic violence that left more than 1,000 people dead — and with one of the top two candidates facing a trial for crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court — Kenyans could use a smile or two. Cue Mohammed Abduba Dida. As one Twitter user exclaimed ahead of the country's second presidential debate last Monday:
"Uhuru confirms he will attend presidential debate goo.gl/fb/7FFtM" Who cares! It's #Dida we've all come to watch!
— Capt. Ronald Speirs (@JKukka) February 25, 2013
A teacher by trade, Dida has three wives, stringent morals, and effervescent charm. He comes across as a political outsider who is truly interested in improving the lives of Kenyans, and the Internet adores him. Too bad nobody will ever vote for him.
At times Dida seems sensible enough. During the second debate, for instance, the candidate pointed out the futility of asking corrupt officials to comment on their underhanded dealings. Tweets during the event said it all:
#Dida: Did you expect a thief to tell you he has stolen? #KEDebate13
— Presidential Debate(@KenyaDebate2013) February 25, 2013
#Dida: Its not that there's no money, but that people do not have the best interest of Kenyans at heart #KEDebate13
— K24 TV (@K24Tv) February 25, 2013
But at other times things have gone a bit off-kilter. Dida's eccentricities have inspired memes and a parody Twitter account, and his name dominated live-tweeting of the first presidential debate. In promoting preventative health care during that debate, for instance, he argued
that people should eat when they are hungry if they want to be healthy. "I do not know who brought these eating schedules with lunch and dinner," he observed. "When you are hungry you do not fill up your belly with food; you need a third of food, a third of water then the other third is breathing space." Check out this coverage of the sensation Dida created in the wake of the first debate:
Dida speaks to Kenyans who are dissatisfied with rampant corruption and inequality. Unlike Kenyan politicians, the candidate points out, "Jesus would not drive home with a convoy of six cars when it's raining on innocent Kenyans on the streets," so when he becomes president neither will he. Unfortunately, there's very little chance of that happening.
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The more tough they are , the cuter they is with the Lo's :) good job quitting, he gets extra super dad points
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They're all sleeping lol!
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Preservation Hall in New Orleans 370.
(photo credit:CTLiotta)
Growing up in
New Orleans as the son of the man who turned a French Quarter art gallery into
one of the longest-running and most-successful music venues in the world—
Preservation Hall—Jewish tuba player Ben Jaffe had jazz running through his
veins from a very early age. Jaffe recalls in an interview with JNS.org that
spending time during his childhood with the legendary likes of Allen Toussaint,
Pete Seeger, and the Creole duo of Billie and De De Pierce was like "going to
your grandparents' house and hearing them speak Yiddish."Despite his
father Allan's passing in 1987 and the near destruction of his home and his
state-of-the-art recording studio during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Jaffe
continues to perform and promote his beloved Jazz in New Orleans and around the
world. As he prepares to release a Preservation Hall Jazz Band 50th anniversary
box set on the Columbia/Legacy label in September, Jaffe found a few moments to
reflect on his musical life thus far."I grew up around Preservation
Hall," Jaffe explains, reminiscing about days and nights spent with his father
and local legends like the Humphrey Brothers, Walter Payton (father of Nicholas)
and others. "If I wasn't at home, I was at Preservation Hall two blocks
away."When asked if he has any particular memories of his days in the
Hall, Jaffe smiles and says, "Memories? My whole childhood is one big fairytale
memory!"In addition collaborating with members of his own band and their
musical predecessors, Jaffe was privileged to go on gigs and tours with some of
New Orleans' (and the world's) greatest creative powers. "I was blessed to grow
up around an incredible community of musicians and artists," he says. In
addition to having the sound of Yiddish—the "mamaloshen"—in his ear, Ben grew up
at the knee of his tuba-playing father."I had the sound of bass in my
[head] long before I started playing music," explains the bass and tuba player
who began playing at age 6 and performed in his first Mardi Gras parade with his
father at 9. When asked what else might have led him to his musical choices,
Jaffe explains that he believes people "gravitate to instruments that reflect
their personality." Perhaps this is why Jaffe has been able to remain so
grounded despite the highs of fame and the lows of sadness that have befallen
his family, his city, and his genre in recent years. In addition to mourning his
father and his studio (which housed many of the Hall's archives, some of which
were thankfully saved and preserved on the new box set), Jaffe lost many friends
in Katrina and has also seen how jazz as a whole has been slowly dying as clubs
continue to close and radio stations continue to cut their jazz programming.
That is why he continues to work so hard to maintain and preserve not only the
legacy of the Hall (which, as its name attests, was created as a means of
preserving the original sound of New Orleans Jazz), but also of the
city.While Katrina devastated much of his physical home, Jaffe is almost
thankful for the hurricane that revealed the true heart and soul of the Crescent
City. "I never knew how strong of a community we have in New Orleans until
Hurricane Katrina," he says, noting that, as the Hall has gone, so too has the
city. "Preservation Hall is a reflection of New Orleans," he suggests.As
the traditions of the Hall and of the city go so deep and stretch back so far,
Jaffe sees it not only as a matter of pride, but as one of "responsibility" to
care for and nourish his traditions and those of the music on which he and his
family (immediate and far extended) was raised.That is why, 50 years on,
Jaffe gives the same heart and soul to the Hall and the music that his father
and his many musical friends have and continue to give. "I want to pass on the
tradition the older generation and the generations that came before me passed to
me," Jaffe says. "It's important to me to pass on the musical traditions that I
inherited. That's the greatest gift in the world."Jaffe remains
astonished by what the Hall and its legendary "house band" have meant to his
city and the world. "It's amazing how much joy the band has brought into the
world," he observes. "We are better people because of Preservation
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