An experimental study on flared folding wingtips: Effects of wing stiffness, aeroelastic tailoring and hinge release threshold on gust load alleviation performance

The flared folding wingtip (FFWT) is a concept presented by Airbus to increase the aerodynamic efficiency and provide a means of load alleviation. A gate-to-gate demonstration of this concept has already been presented with the AlbatrossONE, a scaled aircraft featuring the FFWT concept. In this demonstration, the aircraft fold the wingtips...