Patent ID: 7475848

Claim:
A supersonic aircraft comprising: a wing, wherein the wing further comprises: an inboard section of the wing adjacent to a fuselage; a central section of the wing outboard of the inboard section; an outboard winglet oriented anhedrally relative to a lateral axis of the supersonic aircraft and outboard of the central section of the wing; a leading edge formed from substantially linear leading edge segments on the central section and outboard winglet, wherein the leading edge segments include a leading edge flap mounted thereon, the leading edge flap of the central section comprises a Krueger flap and the leading-edge flap of the outboard winglet comprises a simple leading-edge flap, the Krueger flap on the central section of the wing includes a round leading edge radius that gradually blends to a sharp edge moving inboard to outboard along the leading edge, and the sharp edge conforms to the form of the simple leading-edge flap at a junction between the Krueger flap and the simple leading-edge flap; and a control system operable to reposition the leading edge flaps to improve aerodynamic performance of the supersonic aircraft.