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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2014
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Jeffrey H. Hunt, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Stephen A. Walls, Everett, WA (US);
David Arthur Whelan, Newport Coast, CA (US);
Bentley Edwin Northon, Auburn, WA (US);
Robert Roland Keever, Poulsbo, WA (US);
Jacklyn Ann Holmes, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ordie Dean Butterfield, Bonney Lake, WA (US);
Grant Joseph Atkinson, Seattle, WA (US);
Jonathan Kenji Brown, Renton, WA (US);
Glenn Scott Bushnell, Puyallup, WA (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for shaping fuselage sections. A first fuselage section is held in a holding structure in a cradle in a cradle system. Force are applied to the first fuselage section with an actuator system to a portion of the first fuselage section such that a first current shape of the first fuselage section changes towards a first desired shape for the first fuselage section to join the first the fuselage section to a second fuselage section.