Airbus Operations Gmbh

Airbus Operations (s.a.s.)

Julien Laverne

Matt Harding

Oliver Marks

Andrew Henstridge

Philip Jaggard

Andrew McMahon

Saif Rafique

Umberto Polimeno

John Hobday

Jöerg Schwickert

Raul-Jose Gomez Vizcaino

Abishek Ramesh

An assembly-ready joint for an aircraft assembly is disclosed. The joint includes a first joint part having a spigot. The joint also has a second joint part with a housing. A floating socket is in an interior of the housing. The second joint part receives the spigot in the floating socket. The joint is arranged to receive a curable medium, such as curable resin, in the interior to contract between the housing and the floating socket.

Joint for an aircraft assembly

An aircraft assembly including: first and second external skin panels having opposing edge faces separated by a gap, the gap having a width in a first direction extending between the opposing edge faces and a depth in a second direction generally orthogonal to the first direction; and a gap seal arranged in the gap to at least partially fill the gap, wherein the gap seal is formed of a material configured such that compression of the gap seal in the first direction results in substantially no expansion of the gap seal in the second direction.

Aircraft gap seal

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Bristol, United Kingdom

Julien Laverne