Airbus Operations Gmbh

Robert McCormick

Heinz Hansen

Ross Salisbury

Christopher Payne

Llifon Williams

Hugh Theobald

Allan David Mcnaught

Marcus Rafla

Timothy Evans

A rib mounting assembly for an aircraft is disclosed including a rib post and a seal member. The rib post has a rib post foot to mount with a longitudinal spar and a rib post web upstanding from the rib post foot. The seal member has a seal body and a mounting flange. The mounting flange is mounted with the rib post foot and the seal body extends from an end of the rib post.

Rib mounting assembly

A leading edge structure for providing an aerodynamic surface of an aircraft is disclosed having a skin structure, the skin structure providing an outer aerodynamic surface and an inner surface, both surfaces extending in a chordwise and spanwise direction of the structure, and a plurality of structural members, each structural member being connected to the inner surface of the skin structure and extending in the chordwise direction along the inner surface, wherein the structural members are integrally formed with the inner surface of the skin structure. The disclosure is also related to an aircraft wing, aircraft tailplane, wing box structure, wing or wing structure and an aircraft including the leading edge structure.

Leading edge structure

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Bristol, United Kingdom

Robert McCormick