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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2018
Applicant:
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Inventors:
Matthew David Grubb, White Salmon, WA (US);
Jeffrey David Lydecker, Hood River, OR (US);
Wayne David Goodrich, Moses Lake, WA (US);
Assignee:
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 39/02 (2006.01); B64C 39/04 (2006.01); B64C 9/18 (2006.01); B64C 1/26 (2006.01); B64C 9/02 (2006.01); H01Q 1/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 39/024 (2013.01); B64C 1/26 (2013.01); B64C 9/18 (2013.01); B64C 39/04 (2013.01); B64C 9/02 (2013.01); B64C 2201/021 (2013.01); B64C 2201/104 (2013.01); B64C 2201/182 (2013.01); B64C 2211/00 (2013.01); H01Q 1/286 (2013.01); H01Q 1/287 (2013.01);
Abstract
An aircraft has a fuselage, a wing assembly coupleable to the fuselage, and an empennage including a pair of tail booms configured to be removably coupled to the wing assembly. The wing assembly includes a pair of boom interfaces located on laterally opposite sides of the fuselage. Each tail boom has a boom forward end configured to be mechanically attached to one of the boom interfaces using an externally-accessible mechanical fastener.