TECHNOLOGY
Ground-breaking design improvements unique in magnitude and synergies
Aircraft utility can be expressed as the utiles/disutiles ratio —in other words, performance, fuel efficiency, productivity, and the pure enjoyment of flying divided by cost. LAM Aero Technology brings exponential increases in aircraft utility and performance. It expands the flight envelope in all directions. With it, the road to performance enhancement combined with envelope protection is readily at hand.
LAM Spin Resistance
is a unique capability enabled by LAM Aero Technology (LAT). Importantly, the combination of improved stalling behavior and better control provides spin resistance characteristics. LAT also provides spin recovery characteristics. The technology prevents inadvertent departure from controlled flight. It tolerates aggravated control inputs, is highly non-spinnable, and is anti-autorotative in a spin.
LAM Hybrid Control System
integrates the LAM Aileron’s electromechanical drive with traditional control surfaces and mechanical flight control input (cable, pushrod, hydraulic, etc.) It dramatically improves lateral control and high-lift with one simple system. This system can be mixed for specialized functions such as anti-spin, drag rudders, and flight path control. It also provides a low-risk, low-cost pathway to fly-by-wire flight control.
Optimal Balance
Aircraft performance is concerned with much more than a single point in the flight envelope. Good design seeks the optimal balance among the varied flight requirements throughout an aircraft’s mission, and maximizes total utility. LAM Aero Technology allows for aircraft configuration changes with simple trailing edge variable geometry that improve flight performance. These can also provide other modes of operation and function, such as drag rudders, speed brakes and flight path control.
Flight control sizing and stability, and control requirements also play a role in design. In the quest for optimal design, the inherent conflict between the requirements of low-speed flight and those of high-speed flight make envelope-expanding solutions difficult. Traditionally, the low-speed or high-lift case will expose a design conflict between adequate lateral control and wing lift. The conventional solution trades off aileron span for high-lift device (flap) span.
New Synergies
LAM Aero Technology creates new synergies between lateral control and high-lift devices. LAT augments lateral control with increasing wing CL. It eliminates the conventional control conflict. In fact, with LAT lateral control becomes more powerful in the high lift, low-speed (e.g, landing) configuration. This is a remarkable contrast to conventional ailerons and flaps. Stalling behavior is often aggravated with powerful high-lift devices. LAT resolves this characteristic, too.
LAT creates a control system that minimizes drag due to lift. It delivers powerful lateral control and good flight handling characteristics that allow a smaller wing to perform like a larger conventional wing at low speeds. High-speed flight performance is about drag reduction. A smaller wing that can do the same job well at the low-speed range, but with lower drag for high-speed flight, expands the performance envelope. LAT makes such performance possible.
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