Patent ID: 11970269
Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 14:
15. A system comprising:
a control surface;
a bullnose moveable relative to the control surface;
a first actuator operatively coupled to the control surface;
a second actuator operatively coupled to the bullnose;
memory;
machine-readable instructions; and
processor circuitry to execute the machine-readable instructions to:
cause the first actuator to rotate the control surface about a hinge line between a neutral position and a downward deflected position relative to the neutral position; and
cause the second actuator to move the bullnose from an extended position to a retracted position via a coupler to create an opening relative to the control surface when the control surface is in the downward deflected position, the hinge line and an endpoint of the coupler coincident when the bullnose is in the retracted position.