Method and apparatus for removing and replacing components of an airplane
AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorsMichael Sievers, Timothy George
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Abstract
The invention relates to apparatus and methods to shore an airplane to facilitate the replacement of one or more airplane parts, such as an airplane's upper skin panels, lower skin panels, and/or window assemblies. In one aspect of the invention, a method is provided which comprises disposing at least one beam underneath an airplane floor structure, supporting the beam with at least one jack which extends through a hole in a lower skin of the airplane, and removing and replacing at least one airplane part.
Claims40
A method of shoring an airplane to facilitate the replacement of one or more airplane parts, the method comprising:
- disposing at least one beam underneath an airplane floor structure;
- supporting said at least one beam with at least one jack, wherein at least a portion of said at least one jack extends through at least one hole in a lower skin of the airplane;
- removing at least one airplane part;
- and
- replacing said at least one airplane part.
An airplane comprising:
- at least one replaced airplane part, wherein said at least one airplane part was replaced while at least one beam was temporarily disposed underneath an airplane floor structure, said at least one beam having been supported by at least one jack which extended through at least one hole in a lower skin of the airplane.
An apparatus shoring an airplane to facilitate the replacement of one or more airplane parts, the apparatus comprising:
- at least one beam disposed underneath an airplane floor structure;
- and
- at least one jack supporting said at least one beam, wherein at least a portion of said at least one jack extends through at least one hole in a lower skin of the airplane.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.