Central section of aircraft with ventral or belly fairing capable of movement
View Patent ↗An aircraft center section includes a center part of an aircraft fuselage, a wing section, a center wing box installed at least partly in the fuselage and providing a junction between the wing section and the fuselage, and a ventral fairing partly enveloping the fuselage and the wing section, with the ventral fairing being attached directly to the wing section and to the fuselage by means of structural elements that can make the ventral fairing a working fairing.
1. The center section of an aircraft comprising:
a center part of an aircraft fuselage
a wing section
a center wing box installed at least partly in the fuselage and joining the wing section and the fuselage,
and
a ventral fairing partly enveloping the fuselage and the wing section wherein the ventral fairing is attached directly to the stiffeners of the wing section and to the frame of the fuselage by means of structural elements that can make said ventral fairing working.
2. The center section of the aircraft in claim 1 , wherein the structural elements constitute, at least in part, a substructure of the ventral fairing, with this substructure covered with an envelope.
3. The center section of the aircraft in claim 1 , wherein the structural elements include fastening elements to attach the wing section mechanically to the fuselage, thus allowing at least some of the flexing forces to be transferred from the wing section to the fuselage.
4. The center section of the aircraft in claims 1 , wherein the structural elements include connecting elements to attach the ventral fairing mechanically to the fuselage, thus providing an at least partial transfer of the flexing forces from the rear boat of the fuselage to the front boat.
5. The center section of the aircraft in claim 3 , wherein the fastening elements are fish-plates attached, on the other hand, to stiffeners in the wing section and, on the other hand, to feet on the frame of the fuselage.
6. The center section of the aircraft in claim 4 , wherein the connecting elements are C-shaped frames attached to the frame of the fuselage.
7. The center section of the aircraft in claim 6 , wherein the connecting elements are attached to the frame of the fuselage by riveting or bolting.
8. The center section of the aircraft in claim 1 , wherein the structural elements are made of composite materials.
9. The center section of the aircraft in claim 1 , wherein the structural elements are made of titanium.
10. An aircraft that has the center fuselage section in claim 1 .