The Boeing Company

Donald A Mottaz

Darrell Darwin Jones

Daniel R Smith

Clayton Lynn Munk

James Niemann Buttrick

Farahnaz Sisco

Edward John Batt

Antonio C Micale

Jayson J Aquino

Chris G Couevas

Azita N Namdaran

Noman S Noor

Joseph C Kowalski

Berton A Cole

Farahnaz Tanni Sisco

Mario Ramos

A system and method are provided to automate the assembly of a wing panel, such as utilized by commercial aircraft. In the context of a system, a tacking cell is provided that is configured to tack one or more stringers to a skin plank. The system also includes a riveting cell configured to receive a tacked plank from the tacking cell and to rivet the one or more stringers to the skin plank. The system also includes a splicing cell configured to receive a plurality of riveted planks from the riveting cell and to attach one or more splice stringers to the plurality of riveted planks. Further, the system includes a side of body cell configured to receive a spliced panel from the splicing cell and to attach a side of body chord thereto to produce a wing panel.

System and method for manufacturing a wing panel

Composite, lightweight, flexible, fire-resistant, decorative laminates (10, 10', 10') suitable for use as wall coverings on bulkhead panels in commercial aircraft include: (i) a laminar fire-resistant layer (15/14) including an aluminum foil sheet (15) bonded to a first inert polyvinyl fluoride sheet (14); (ii) an underlying flexible paper-like base lamination (11); (iii) means (12) for adhesively bonding the first polyvinyl fluoride sheet (14) to the panel-like base lamination (11); (iv) a resinous embossing film (16) overlying and in face-to-face bonded relation to the aluminum foil sheet (15); (v) sheet defining means (18, 18', 18') having an outer decorative surface and in overlying face-to-face bonded engagement with a resinous embossing film (16); and (vi), an outer transparent sheet (21) of clear polyvinyl fluoride overlying in bonded face-to-face relation with the decorative surface (19, 22) of the sheet defining means (18, 18', 18').

Flexible, fire-resistant, decorative laminates and methods of

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Issaquah, WA, United States of America

Donald A Mottaz