Patent ID: 8662442

Claim:
A rotary aircraft comprising: a fuselage; a wing rigidly attached to the fuselage; a rotary system pivotally attached to the wing, the rotary system having: a plurality of rotor blades; an actuator operably associated with the plurality of rotor blades; and a control system operably associated with the rotary system, the control system having: a first sensor carried on a pressure surface of the wing and a second sensor carried on the suction surface of the wing; wherein the first sensor and the second sensor are operably associated with each other such that the first sensor senses movement of pressure surface of the wing and the second sensor senses movement of the suction surface of the wing, and wherein the sensed movement of the pressure surface and the sensed movement of the suction surface determine a bending movement exerted on the wing by the rotary system; and a subsystem in data communication with the first sensor and the second sensor and configured to receive the sensed bending movement of the wing and determine whether the sensed bending movement is potentially harmful to the wing; wherein the control system adjusts the movement of the plurality of blades via the actuators if the bending movement of the wing is potentially harmful.