Multi-purpose passenger aircraft, use thereof, operation method therefore and passenger aircraft series
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorMarc Wesseloh
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Abstract
An aircraft usable as a passenger aircraft and a fire fighter aircraft. The passenger aircraft includes a passenger area with passenger seats and a permanently installed fire extinguishing medium tank for storing fire extinguishing medium such as water, as well as a fire extinguishing medium nozzle for discharging the fire extinguishing medium. The passenger aircraft may be a type from an aircraft series also including a long-haul aircraft having a center tank for range extension. In the passenger aircraft, a center tank may be used as an extinguishing medium tank.
Claims11
A passenger aircraft configured as a long-haul aircraft having a flight range of at least 8000 kilometers, comprising:
- a passenger cabin with at least twenty passenger seats,
- a cargo deck beneath the passenger cabin,
- a permanently installed tank located in the cargo deck for carrying an additional fuel to increase the flight range of the passenger aircraft, wherein the permanently installed tank is reconfigured to hold a fire extinguishing medium,
- a plurality of mobile extinguishing medium containers located fore and aft of the permanently installed tank fluidically coupled therewith,
- the fire extinguishing medium for firefighting a fire within the permanently installed tank and each of the plurality of mobile extinguishing medium containers, and
- at least one extinguishing medium nozzle connected to the permanently installed tank for discharging the extinguishing medium over the fire.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.