Patent classifications
B64C25/16
Method of moving doors of a well for an aircraft undercarriage
A method of moving a door of a well for an aircraft undercarriage during sequences of deploying or retracting the undercarriage includes: using a temporary mechanical connection between the door and the undercarriage that is effective when the undercarriage is close to its retracted position, causing the door to be opened by the undercarriage while the undercarriage is being deployed and causing the door to be closed by the undercarriage while the undercarriage is being retracted, but releasing the door from the undercarriage when the undercarriage is close to its deployed position, and using a door actuator acting on the door to close and open the door when the undercarriage is in its deployed position and the temporary mechanical connection is interrupted.
Compact aircraft main landing gear module allowing modular mounting
A module includes two main landing gears and a landing gear bay containing the landing gears. The bay has two lateral walls, a roof wall, a front wall and a rear wall. The roof wall, the front wall and the rear wall together form a pressurization barrier between the bay and a pressurized compartment. By virtue of the landing gear module, it is now possible to assemble and test the main landing gears and the one or more doors and the fairing before they are installed on the aircraft.
Compact aircraft main landing gear module allowing modular mounting
A module includes two main landing gears and a landing gear bay containing the landing gears. The bay has two lateral walls, a roof wall, a front wall and a rear wall. The roof wall, the front wall and the rear wall together form a pressurization barrier between the bay and a pressurized compartment. By virtue of the landing gear module, it is now possible to assemble and test the main landing gears and the one or more doors and the fairing before they are installed on the aircraft.
ACOUSTICALLY TREATED LANDING GEAR DOOR AND METHOD FOR REDUCING NOISE FROM LANDING GEAR OF AN AIRCRAFT
There is provided an acoustically treated landing gear door for reducing noise from a landing gear of an aircraft. The acoustically treated landing gear door includes a landing gear door for attachment to the aircraft. The landing gear door includes an acoustic treatment assembly integrated on an inner mold line of an interior side, and extending within an interior cavity of the landing gear door. The acoustic treatment assembly includes a core structure having a first side and a second side, a plurality of core cells extending between the first side and the second side, and a drainage system. The acoustic treatment assembly further includes an acoustic facesheet and a nonporous backsheet. The acoustically treated landing gear door reduces the noise from the landing gear, when the landing gear is in a deployed position, by attenuating acoustic waves emanating from the landing gear and reflected off the acoustic treatment assembly.
ACOUSTICALLY TREATED LANDING GEAR DOOR AND METHOD FOR REDUCING NOISE FROM LANDING GEAR OF AN AIRCRAFT
There is provided an acoustically treated landing gear door for reducing noise from a landing gear of an aircraft. The acoustically treated landing gear door includes a landing gear door for attachment to the aircraft. The landing gear door includes an acoustic treatment assembly integrated on an inner mold line of an interior side, and extending within an interior cavity of the landing gear door. The acoustic treatment assembly includes a core structure having a first side and a second side, a plurality of core cells extending between the first side and the second side, and a drainage system. The acoustic treatment assembly further includes an acoustic facesheet and a nonporous backsheet. The acoustically treated landing gear door reduces the noise from the landing gear, when the landing gear is in a deployed position, by attenuating acoustic waves emanating from the landing gear and reflected off the acoustic treatment assembly.
Aircraft landing gear noise reduction fairing
An aircraft landing gear assembly including a plurality of noise-inducing elements, at least one of the noise-inducing elements comprising a brake assembly or electric drive assembly, and a noise reduction fairing arranged to shield only at least a portion of the brake assembly from incident airflow.
Door alignment for aircraft landing gear
Systems and methods are provided for door alignment of an aircraft landing gear door. One embodiment is an apparatus that includes a plurality of adjustable rods configured to temporarily install in an aircraft to stand in place of a final adjustable part, each of the adjustable rods configured to position a block for stopping a door of the aircraft. Each of the adjustable rods includes a telescopic body configured to extend and retract in length, and a spring configured to compress to reduce the length of the telescopic body, and to expand to extend the length of the telescopic body. Each adjustable rod also includes a locking mechanism configured to lock the telescopic body at a fixed length to prevent expansion of the spring, and to unlock the telescopic body to release the spring and adjust the telescopic body to an adjusted length.
Door alignment for aircraft landing gear
Systems and methods are provided for door alignment of an aircraft landing gear door. One embodiment is an apparatus that includes a plurality of adjustable rods configured to temporarily install in an aircraft to stand in place of a final adjustable part, each of the adjustable rods configured to position a block for stopping a door of the aircraft. Each of the adjustable rods includes a telescopic body configured to extend and retract in length, and a spring configured to compress to reduce the length of the telescopic body, and to expand to extend the length of the telescopic body. Each adjustable rod also includes a locking mechanism configured to lock the telescopic body at a fixed length to prevent expansion of the spring, and to unlock the telescopic body to release the spring and adjust the telescopic body to an adjusted length.
WHEEL WELL FAIRING FOR AN AIRCRAFT
A wheel well fairing for reducing drag on an aircraft fuselage configured with an open wheel well for stowing landing gear of the aircraft. The wheel well fairing includes a Coanda fairing having a convex-shaped lower portion and an upper portion. The upper portion is configured for positioning adjacent an interior vertically-orientated sidewall of the wheel well, and the convex-shaped lower portion has a bottom surface configured to extend substantially parallel to and positioned adjacent with an outer hull surface of the fuselage. The convex-shaped lower portion is curved inwardly within the wheel well between the upper portion and bottom surface. The Coanda fairing is positioned at an aft portion of the wheel well to redirect airflow out of the wheel well in a rearward direction along the bottom hull surface of the fuselage.
AIRCRAFT SYSTEM
An aircraft system for an aircraft is disclosed including a controller. The controller is configured, during a take-off procedure, to initiate automatic closing of a landing gear bay door of the aircraft from an open position towards a closed position, on the basis of a determination that a predetermined door-closing criterion has been met and a command to retract a landing gear has not been received, the landing gear being arranged to retract into a landing gear bay to be at least partially covered by the landing gear bay door when the landing gear bay door is in the closed position.