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AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorsDanilo Vukosav, Daniel Cox, Evgeny M. Potupchik, James David Tummons, Ryan Matthew Slater, Timothy R. Portway
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The present disclosure provides a keel beam assembly, an aircraft including the keel beam assembly, and a method of aircraft manufacture using the keel beam assembly. An illustrative keel beam assembly comprises a pair of keel chords extending outside an aircraft fuselage and forming at least part of a lower keel box portion of a keel box. An upper keel box portion of the keel box is coupled to the pair of keel chords and has an aft end engaged with and secured to an aft wheel well bulkhead (AWWB).
A keel beam assembly, comprising:
An aircraft, comprising:
A method of aircraft manufacture using an aircraft section including a fuselage portion coupled to a pair of keel chords, wherein the keel chords extend outside the fuselage portion, form at least part of a lower keel box portion of a keel box, and are coupled to an upper keel box portion of the keel box, the method comprising:
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