Airplane with a fuselage having side outgrowth delimiting storage spaces
AssigneeAirbus Opeations (SAS)
InventorsGuillaume Gallant, Romain Delahaye
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Abstract
An aircraft of which the transversal section of the fuselage is reduced optimally at the price of a reduced carrying capacity of luggage or merchandise but adapted to short- and medium-haul type routes. The fuselage has for this purpose lateral protuberances defining storage areas arranged on either side of a passenger cabin and able to house luggage and/or merchandise, and/or onboard service equipment, and/or removable fuel tanks.
Claims15
An aircraft for the commercial transport of passengers, comprising a fuselage comprising a front part and a rear part, as well as an intermediate portion connecting the front part to the rear part and wherein is housed a passenger cabin provided with a plurality of passenger seats,
- wherein said intermediate portion of the fuselage comprises a first longitudinal portion, having:
- a median portion centered in relation to a median vertical plane of the aircraft and wherein is housed at least one portion of said passenger cabin, and
- at least two lateral protuberances arranged on either side of said median portion,
- said lateral protuberances being separated from said passenger cabin respectively by means of two longitudinal partitions laterally delimiting said passenger cabin,
- said lateral protuberances defining respectively at least two storage areas on either side of said median vertical plane,
- and said lateral protuberances having an upper end and a lower end which connect to said median portion of said first longitudinal portion of the fuselage,
- wherein the connection of said upper end and lower end of each of said lateral protuberances forms a discontinuity of the curvature of an external surface of the fuselage as viewed in transverse section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.