The Boeing Company

Nicholas Toon

Navid Daneshvaran

Takao Suzuki

Nicholas J Moffitt

Michael Lewis McGillivray

Brian A Harr

Andrew Henry Adams

Lance Joseph Bakken

A device to engage with a steering mechanism of a nose landing gear of an aircraft to limit steering rotation of the nose landing gear. The device includes a first chock sized to fit within a first space formed in the nose landing gear at a first cylinder of a steering mechanism, and a second chock sized to fit within a second space formed in the nose landing gear at a second cylinder. The first chock is configured to engage with the first cylinder and to compress to prevent retraction of the first cylinder beyond a first predetermined length. The second chock is configured to engage with the second cylinder and to compress to prevent retraction of the second cylinder beyond a second predetermined length.

Chock for steering mechanism of an aircraft nose landing gear

A tow bar fitting for towing an aircraft is disclosed. The tow bar fitting includes a mount, a pin support, and a tow pin. The mount includes an upper attachment and a lower attachment for affixing the tow bar fitting to a landing gear of the aircraft. The pin support extends from the mount away from the landing gear. The tow pin is positioned in the pin support such that a tow pin plane that horizontally bisects the tow pin is lower than a mount plane that horizontally bisects the upper attachment and the lower attachment when the aircraft is right-side-up on the ground.

Noise-reducing aircraft landing gear tow bar fitting

A spring assembly elongate along a longitudinal direction includes a first spring that includes a first spring member and a first elongate member that extends from the first spring member along the longitudinal direction. The spring assembly includes a second spring including a second spring member and a second elongate member that extends from the second spring member along the longitudinal direction. The second elongate member extends through the first spring member, and the first elongate member extends through the second spring member such that the first and second spring members are spaced apart with respect to each other along the longitudinal direction.

Spring assembly for aircraft components

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Kirkland, WA, United States of America

Nicholas Toon