Patent ID: 7398586

Claim:
A method of manufacturing aircraft wing skins, the method comprising: providing a wing skin tool having a concave tool surface configured to support one or more plies of fiber-reinforced resin material disposed thereon, the tool surface defining an outer mold line of the fiber-reinforced resin material; manufacturing a first skin for a first wing by: positioning a first portion of prefabricated fiber-reinforced resin material over a first portion of the tool surface to at least generally cover the first portion of the tool surface; curing the first portion of fiber-reinforced resin material to harden the first portion of fiber-reinforced resin material and form a first wing skin; and removing the first wing skin from the wing skin tool, wherein the first wing skin has a first tip portion spaced apart from a first root portion by a first span length; and manufacturing a second skin for a second wing by: positioning a second portion of prefabricated fiber-reinforced resin material over a second portion of the tool surface to at least generally cover the second portion of the tool surface; and curing the second portion of fiber-reinforced resin material to harden the second portion of fiber-reinforced resin material and form a second wing skin, wherein the second wing skin has a second tip portion spaced apart from a second root portion by a second span length, the second span length being less than the first span length.