The Boeing Company

William A Lamey, Iii

John Cleveland Waldrop, Iii

Xue Wu Liu

Carey E Wilkinson

Manny Salazar Urcia, Jr

Anthony C Roberts

Robert Ray Johnson

Lucian Woods

Samuel Jerome Huhman

Rupture fairings are disclosed. A disclosed example fairing for use with an aircraft includes a surface to at least partially define an exterior surface of the aircraft when the fairing is installed onto the aircraft, and a membrane to rupture during flight of the aircraft, where the membrane defines at least a portion of the exterior surface.

Rupture fairings

A tensile specimen measuring apparatus includes a generally elongated base, a generally elongated pin channel provided in the base, a measuring pin carrier slidably mounted in the pin channel of the base, at least one contact pin carried by the measuring pin carrier, at least one contact pin disposed at an end of the pin channel of the base in generally spaced-apart relationship with respect to the at least one contact pin carried by the measuring pin carrier and an electronic measuring device engaging the at least one contact pin carried by the measuring pin carrier. A tensile specimen measuring method is also disclosed.

Tensile specimen measuring apparatus and method

Growing community of inventors

Saint Peters, MO, United States of America

William A Lamey, Iii