Airbus Operations Gmbh

Zodiac Seats France

Sébastien Menard

François Rouyre

Bastien Bonnefoy

Jacques Roux

Nathalie Castaing

Christian Cros

Jérome Antypas

Jean-Pierre Monteiro

Thierry Thavanaud

A joint assembly in an aircraft connecting a belly fairing to the fuselage of the aircraft. The belly fairing has a sewing angle connected to a main belly fairing section, while the fuselage has a fuselage skin with an exterior and an interior. The joint assembly includes a sewing angle with a flange connected to the fuselage skin exterior at a fixation zone of the fuselage skin, with the fixation zone being overlapped by the flange where it is connected thereto. The joint assembly further includes a stringer connected to the fuselage skin interior and overlapping the fixation zone. This joint assembly is less susceptible to vibrations. The disclosure herein also pertains to a method of providing such a joint assembly.

Joint assembly and method connecting an aircraft belly fairing to the fuselage provided with a particularly positioned stringer

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Saint Paul sur Save, France

Sébastien Menard