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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gerhard E. Seidel, Renton, WA (US);
Assignee:
The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 1/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 1/00 ;
Abstract
An aircraft having a fuselage and a wing employs area-ruling of the fuselage in a vertical direction, with at least a substantial amount of the area-ruling being accomplished by dishing the keel area of the fuselage directly below the center portion of the wing. In one embodiment the aircraft has a main passenger seating deck and forward and aft upper seating decks located above the main deck respectively forward and aft of the wing, and both the upper surface of the fuselage above the wing and the lower surface of the fuselage below the wing are area-ruled.