The Boeing Company

William M Sampedro-Thompson

Robert Erik Grip

Gregory M Santini

Paul W Dees

Neal A Harrison

David W Evans

Bret Alan Bowers

Donald T Powell

Robert Graham Albers

Jordan Charles

Ian C Burford

Brian Henry Korenaga

Wendell C K Choy

Druh Palma

Tyler W Downey

Jessica Lynn Watkins

Alan C Simonini

Ben C Welte

Steven F Hastings

Michael J Gamble

Theodore K Rothaupt

Ryan Christopher Roache

Michael John Gamble

Jessica L Watkins

Wendell C Choy

Brian H Korenaga

Robert G Albers

Ian C Burtord

Apparatus and articles of manufacture are disclosed of an aircraft comprising: a brace to support a wing of the aircraft, the brace including a first end coupled to the wing and a second end coupled to a fuselage of the aircraft, the brace including: a strut extending between the first end and the second end; and an airfoil having a cavity containing the strut.

Transonic aircraft with tension-based wing support

A coupling system is configured to secure one or more struts to a wing of an aircraft. The coupling system includes one or more splice straps that secure the one or more struts to the wing. A method for securing one or more struts to a wing of an aircraft includes securing, by one or more splice straps, the one or more struts to the wing.

Systems and methods for coupling a strut to a wing of an aircraft

An aircraft has a fuselage, a wing assembly, and a pair of struts. The wing assembly has a center wing structure and a pair of outer wing structures. The center wing structure is coupled to the fuselage at a wing-fuselage joint, and has a pair of engine mounting locations respectively on opposite sides of a wing centerline. Each of the struts is coupled to the fuselage at a strut-fuselage joint, and to one of the outer wing structures at a strut-wing joint. Each strut-fuselage joint is located below and aft of the wing-fuselage joint. Each outer wing structure is coupled to the center wing structure at a mid-wing joint located no further inboard than the engine mounting location, and no further outboard than the strut-wing joint.

Structural arrangement for strut-braced wing assembly of an aircraft

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

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William M Sampedro-Thompson