The Boeing Company

Chad Roderick Adamson

Charley Shin

A factory for assembling aircraft or other systems includes a factory floor with multiple build stations. The factory floor includes a hub-and-spoke tool track having radial track sections connected to and extending radially from a circular center hub section. Each track section terminates at a respective build station. A mobile transport travels along the track to the build stations, transforms into different join tools at a predetermined build station, and thereafter engages and supports the components. An overhead crane may perform another task at each build station. The factory floor may include a first floor positioned below a smaller diameter second floor with ramps interconnecting the floors. A center tower is surrounded by the floor(s), with the center tower defining rooms. An aircraft may be assembled via a method using the above-noted factory.

Aircraft clock factory

An external cooling system for hydraulic fluid of an aircraft hydraulic system. The external cooling system includes a heat exchanger, where an input side of the heat exchanger is connected to a hydraulic fluid reservoir of the aircraft hydraulic system and an output side of the heat exchanger is connected to suction ports of a return side of an electric motor driven pump (EMDP) of the aircraft hydraulic system. The external cooling system operates on 120 VAC power and the hydraulic fluid does not exceed a maximum pressure of 50 pounds per square inch gauge. The EMDP pumps hydraulic fluid through the hydraulic system under conditions wherein fuel tanks in the aircraft are empty, and the external cooling system cools the hydraulic fluid as the EMDP pumps the hydraulic fluid, wherein the hydraulic fluid passes from the hydraulic fluid reservoir and through the external cooling system before entering the EMDP.

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Black Diamond, WA, United States of America

Chad Roderick Adamson