The Boeing Company

Wendell C K Choy

Gregory M Santini

Jan A Kordel

Michael Albert Balzer

Jacob Virnig

Mark M Bleazard

Jordan Charles

Francis E Andrews

William M Sampedro-Thompson

Chun-Liang Lin

Jessica Lynn Watkins

Tyler W Downey

Grant Brian Thomas

Ryan Christopher Roache

Michael John Gamble

Jacob D Virnig

Jessica L Watkins

A wing flap includes a flap body and a torque member. The torque member is integrally formed with at least a portion of the flap body.

Wing flap with torque member and method for forming thereof

A wing flap includes a flap body. The flap body includes an upper skin, a lower skin opposite the upper skin, and a plurality of spars that extend between the upper skin and the lower skin. The wing flap also includes a torque member that is coupled to the flap body. A portion of the torque member is contiguous with at least one of the upper skin and the lower skin.

A wing may include a wing skin, a laminate composite first stringer, a rib, and at least one fastener. A majority of the first stringer may be characterized by a stacked plurality of generally planar plies of reinforcement material structurally joined as a stack to an interior surface of the wing skin and extending generally parallel to the interior surface and a span-wise direction of the wing along a substantial portion of the interior surface. The first stringer may have a generally solid trapezoidal cross section when viewed in a plane that is generally perpendicular to the span-wise direction. The rib may be positioned adjacent the interior surface, and may extend generally perpendicular to the span-wise direction. The trapezoidal cross section may be interfaced with the rib flange. The fastener may extend through the wing skin, the trapezoidal cross section, and the rib flange.

Laminate composite wing structures

The present disclosure is generally directed to an aircraft body including a fuselage skin on an outboard member of the aircraft body and a wing box extending through a member of the aircraft body. The wing box being enclosed and capable of being pressurized is fixedly attached at an outer surface to at least one pair of an attachment member and an attachment link member that is fixedly attached to the aircraft body.

Method and apparatus for attaching an aircraft fuselage frame to a wing box

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Kirkland, WA, United States of America

Wendell C K Choy