Patent ID: 7048234

Claim:
In an aircraft including a fuselage, a left wing and a right wing connected to and extending from said fuselage, and high-lift devices selected from the group consisting of slats or leading-edge flaps movably arranged along leading edges of said wings and trailing-edge flaps movably arranged along trailing edges of said wings, an improved flap or slat drive system comprising: a control arrangement that receives flight data and control commands, and that generates actuating information pertinent for setting positions of said high-lift devices dependent on at least one of said flight data and said control commands; first and second high-lift device groups, wherein each one of said groups respectively includes at least one said high-lift device; and first and second drive stations respectively individually allocated to said first and second high-lift device groups, wherein each one of said drive stations respectively includes two drives that are conductively connected directly or indirectly with said control arrangement, and two drive transmissions that are respectively individually mechanically connected to said two drives and that are mechanically connected to said at least one high-lift device of said high-lift device group to which said drive station is allocated; wherein said first and second high-lift device groups are driven individually and independently of one another by said first and second drive stations respectively allocated to said first and second high-lift device groups, so that said first and second high-lift device groups are selectively drivable synchronously and asynchronously relative to one another.