The present disclosure provides a keel beam assembly, an aircraft including the keel beam assembly, and a method of aircraft manufacture using the keel beam assembly. An illustrative keel beam assembly comprises a pair of keel chords extending outside an aircraft fuselage and forming at least part of a lower keel box portion of a keel box. An upper keel box portion of the keel box is coupled to the pair of keel chords and has an aft end engaged with and secured to an aft wheel well bulkhead (AWWB).
KEEL BEAM ASSEMBLY FOR AN AIRCRAFT
2022-07-21
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge |
Civil aircraft keel beam structure for improving comprehensive performance of structure
European Patent Office | 2020
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