Patent ID: 11884394
Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 20:
21. A wing assembly, comprising:
an inboard flight control surface;
an outboard flight control surface, positioned adjacent to and outboard of the inboard flight control surface;
a dual actuation assembly coupled to and forming a linkage between the inboard flight control surface and the outboard flight control surface, wherein the dual actuation assembly is configured to selectively transition the inboard flight control surface and the outboard flight control surface, in tandem, amongst a retracted configuration and a range of extended configurations, and wherein the dual actuation assembly has a dual-actuation-assembly weight; and
an inboard actuation assembly coupled directly to the inboard flight control surface and configured to selectively transition the inboard flight control surface amongst the retracted configuration and the range of extended configurations, in tandem, with the dual actuation assembly, wherein the inboard actuation assembly has an inboard-actuation-assembly weight that is less than the dual-actuation-assembly weight.