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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2015
Applicant:
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Inventors:
Gregory M. Schmidt, Lake Forest Park, WA (US);
Samuel Thomas Walton, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 1/26 (2006.01); B64C 39/12 (2006.01); B64C 3/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 1/26 (2013.01); B64C 3/185 (2013.01); B64C 39/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
An aircraft includes a fuselage with structural interfaces for connection to any one or more of a variety of vertical tails, horizontal tails and canards. Vertical tails, horizontal tails and/or canards of different sizes, shapes, sweep angles, box chords, and/or root chords may connect to the fuselage without changing the structural layout or configuration of the fuselage structural interfaces.