Airbus Canada Limited Partnership

Angelo Coluni

Olivier Goudard

An aircraft cabin floor structure which makes it possible to avoid the appearance of blisters in the carpets covering the floor panels in an aircraft cabin is disclosed. The aircraft cabin floor structure comprises a rigid carpet that is impermeable to air having a top face and a bottom face, an adhesive layer having an adhesive top face and an adhesive bottom face, said top face adhering to the bottom face of the carpet, and a floor panel that is impermeable to air having a top face and a bottom face, the bottom face of the adhesive layer adhering to the top face of the floor panel. The bottom face of the carpet comprises grooves and at least one air evacuation channel over its periphery. The adhesive layer comprises a plurality of through holes.

Aircraft floor structure

An aircraft has a fuselage, left and right wings, and left and right engine assemblies connected to the wings. Each engine assembly has a nacelle, an engine housed in the nacelle, the engine having a plurality of rotors defining an uncontained rotor impact area, a pylon connecting the nacelle to its wing, at least one hydraulic actuator connected to at least one of the engine and the nacelle, at least one directional control valve hydraulically connected to the at least one hydraulic actuator, and at least one isolation valve hydraulically connected to the at least one directional control valve for selectively cutting off a supply of hydraulic fluid to the at least one directional control valve, the at least one isolation valve being disposed rearward of the uncontained rotor impact area and forward of a trailing edge of its corresponding wing.

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Mount-Royal, Canada

Angelo Coluni