The Boeing Company

Matthew Leroy Anderson

Stephen Roger Amorosi

Mark A Barr

Michael R Severance

Ramon Augustin Burin

Gary Robert Weber

Frederick John Feiertag

Takeshi Kawase

Michael J Reberg

Tyre Glenn Boss

Kelly William Meloy

Genji Mizushima

Simon R Walter

Ronald Hitzeman

Gregory M Santini

William John Koch, Iv

Walter J Jarecki

Paul Hungwai Lai

Gregory E Rupert

Nicholas I Bennett

Carl F Osaki

Quang Minh Pham

Steve C Hinrichs

Structure for aircraft

Aero dynamic structure with fastener arrangement

Continuous skin leading edge slats are disclosed. A disclosed example leading edge slat for use with an aircraft includes a single-piece nose skin defining upper and lower external surfaces of the leading edge slat, where the single-piece nose skin is to extend between a fore end and an aft end of the leading edge slat, and a box spar coupled to an inner surface of the single-piece nose skin. The box spar includes lateral walls extending away from the inner surface of the single-piece nose skin. The lateral walls define at least one compartment of the box spar.

Continuous skin leading edge slats

A wing leading edge architecture designed to enable laminar flow on passenger jets or other aircraft. The embodiments disclosed herein comprise a metallic fixed leading edge skin panel that is bonded to internal support structure without fasteners except for limited fastening along side edge portions adjacent to side edge portions of adjacent leading edge skin panels and along an aft edge portion overlapping a wing skin. In addition, the embodiments disclosed herein integrate a low-drag bleed-air anti-icing (i.e., vent) system and a Krueger flap assembly (e.g., a two-position, high-height, variable-camber Krueger flap assembly).

Wing leading edge architecture suitable for laminar flow

A wedge-lock fastener is provided in which the distance by which the tongue protrudes beyond a workpiece may be controlled. The wedge-lock fastener may include a shank and an adjustable spacer member mounted upon the shank and adapted for controlled lengthwise movement relative thereto so as to adjust the position of the tongue with respect to the workpiece. Correspondingly, a method for installing a wedge-lock fastener is provided in which the respective forward ends of the tongue and tongs are inserted through aligned holes defined by two or more workpieces and the tongs are then retracted to clamp the workpieces together with the respective forward ends of the tongue and the tongs being disposed completely within a counterbore defined by a workpiece.

Wedge-lock fastener and associated installation and assembly methods

A monolithic structure for use as a pressure bulkhead for an aircraft includes a first web, a redundant second web spaced from the first web, stiffeners disposed between and connecting the webs to each other, and first and second outer attachment rings respectively provided on the outer peripheries of the first and second webs for attaching the bulkhead to fuselage structure. One of the webs comprises a pressure web for supporting pressure loading, and the other web defines at least one aperture therethrough. The stiffeners are integrally fabricated along with at least one of the webs and associated attachment ring as a one-piece monolithic part.

Monolithic structure with redundant load paths

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Carnation, WA, United States of America

Matthew Leroy Anderson