The invention relates to design of a high performance supersonic inlet, and in particular to an air inlet
lip structure. The structure comprises an air inlet lip body formed by a support plate, an upper flexible
skin and a lower flexible
skin, an upper cavity, a lower cavity, an
upper lip margin driving part, a
lower lip margin driving part and a temperature controlling device, wherein one end, which is close to lip margins, of the support plate is formed by
shape memory alloy which has at least two change states to ensure that the air inlet with the air inlet
lip structure has a
normal state,an opening enlarging state and an opening shrinking state; the
upper lip margin driving part and the
lower lip margin driving part are both formed by the
shape memory alloy and are respectively fixedly arranged on the positions where an
upper lip margin and a
lower lip margin are located; and the temperature controlling device are used for respectively controlling the temperature in the upper cavity and the lower cavity. The air inlet
lip structure disclosed by the invention has the advantages that in the flying process, shapes of the lip margins can be controlled along with the flying speedto ensure that an air inlet lip can maintain good aerodynamic performance in different flying states and can maintain good inlet-engine matching performance in a wide flying speed range.