Aircraft with windshield glass plates interchangeable between different types
View Patent ↗An aircraft in which it is possible to replace windshield panes of the mineral type with windshield panes of the organic type and vice versa, without the frame of the aircraft structure having to be modified. The pane is held in place on the frame by a window pane retainer specific to the pane. The frame has no through-holes opening to the outside of the aircraft for fastening the pane. The window pane retainer specific to a pane of the organic type has pins passing through the acrylic panes. The disclosed embodiments also relate to a method of replacing a pane of a first type with a pane of a second type.
1. An aircraft comprising:
at least one windshield pane of the organic type held in place by a window pane retainer fastened to a frame of a structure of said aircraft, said at least one windshield pane interposed between a first face of the frame and a first face of the window pane retainer wherein:
the frame has no through-holes opening to the outside of the aircraft for fastening the pane,
the window pane retainer is fastened to the frame by fastening elements, inside the aircraft, passing through the through-holes in the frame, and
the window pane retainer has pins distributed on the first face, each pin having an elongate shape and engaging in an orifice passing through the pane in a thickness of said pane.
2. The aircraft according to claim 1 , wherein each pin has a length between a minimum length necessary to hold the pane in the window pane retainer-frame assembly in the event of deformation of the pane and a maximum length such that a first end of each pin, the one closest to the first face of the frame, is not in contact with said first face of said frame.
3. The aircraft according to claim 1 , wherein the frame has, on the first face, a blind hole facing the orifice in the pane.
4. The aircraft according to claim 1 , wherein the pins and the window pane retainer are produced as one piece.