Airbus Operations Gmbh

Airbus Operations (s.a.s.)

Airbus Operations Sl

Philip John Templeton Bradshaw

Norman Wood

Stuart Strachan Alexander

Ian Roy Whitehouse

John David Randall

Raúl Carlos Llamas Sandin

Lars Vollers

Thierry Salmon

A double-deck airplane that facilitates passenger embarking/disembarking and cargo loading/unloading operations in order to maximize the number of flight missions carried out in a given time. The floors of its upper and lower decks are planar surfaces extending continuously inside the fuselage in at least the inner space of the fuselage intended for the payload; the lower deck is located at a height from the ground that allows carrying out passenger embarking/disembarking via equipment incorporated in the airplane without any external airport ground equipment; passenger and/or cargo compartments are distributed on the upper and/or lower decks; and the lifting structure is disposed in the airplane in a manner that none of its components crosses the upper and lower decks.

Double-deck airplane

An aircraft including a wing, the end of the wing having a wing tip device, wherein the wing tip device includes a moveable region that is rotatable, about an axis of rotation extending out of the plane of the wing tip device, between: (i) a high-altitude cruise configuration in which the moveable region extends downwardly below the wing; and (ii) a ground-operating configuration in which the moveable region extends rearwardly behind the wing such that the ground clearance of the wing tip device is increased.

Wing tip device having configurations for flight and ground-based operations

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Bristol, United Kingdom

Philip John Templeton Bradshaw