What is Active Load Alleviation?

In this video you will learn about active load alleviation. Historically wings include more material to be strong enough, but the wing can be made lighter and still handle the same load if we employ load alleviation. This method has been around since the 1970's and now http://tamarackaero.com has received a Part 23 Certification from the FAA and its European counterpart EASA for a standalone system. We've shown that our load alleviation system, ATLAS, meets or exceeds industry standards, providing dramatically improved fuel efficiency and ride smoothing without the structural weight penalty.

When an Airplanes flying around there's load on the aircraft wing, and the load on the wing comes from the way aircraft is being supported by the wing times the G loading thats on aircraft at any given time.
Historically we've made the wings strong enough by making them structurally strong enough, but in the 70's we figured out that if you use active load alleviation the wing can be made lighter still handle the same load. So when an aircraft load alleviation system is sensing the load on the wing and when the load on wing builds up it aerodynamically dumps the load off the wing. It provides ride smoothing for the passengers so we continue to do it since the 70s, even the 787 which is one of the more current aircraft uses load alleviation just for the purpose of keeping the passengers comfortable. The great benefit of load alleviation is that you get more value and more efficiency structurally out of wing, and better performance. Also the ride smoothing that is provided.