MULTI-BOX WING SPAR AND SKIN Apparatus (500) and methods provide for the construction of wing sections having multi-box wing spars. According to one aspect of the disclosure provided herein, an aircraft wing may be constructed by applying one or more layers of composite material onto a plurality of wing mandrels (100). The wing mandrels (100), when placed together, form the shape of the wing. After the layers of composite material (200, 300, 502) are applied to each individual mandrel (500), the mandrels (100) are abutted together. Thereafter, the mandrels (100) are compressed using wing surface tooling (504) applied to the plurality of wing mandrels (100). The composite material is thereafter cured. After curing, the wing surface tooling (504) and mandrels (100) are removed, resulting in a wing having multi-box wing spars and skin.
Multi-box wing spar and skin
2015-09-03
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge / B29C Formen oder Verbinden von Kunststoffen , SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS / B29D PRODUCING PARTICULAR ARTICLES FROM PLASTICS OR FROM SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE , Herstellen besonderer Gegenstände aus Kunststoff oder aus Stoffen in plastischem Zustand / B29L INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASS B29C, RELATING TO PARTICULAR ARTICLES , Index-Schema für besondere Gegenstände in Verbindung mit Unterklasse B29C |