Aircraft nose with cockpit and avionics bay modules integrated therein
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorsYves Durand, Bernard Guering
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Abstract
An aircraft nose comprising a primary fuselage structure, and housed inside said structure, a cockpit, and an avionics bay containing a plurality of avionics racks designed to receive electrical and/or electronic equipment. The cockpit and the avionics bay are each made in the form of a distinct module that is suitable for being installed in a single operation inside the primary fuselage structure. The use of modules for integrating in the aircraft nose makes it possible to reduce considerably the time required for fitting out the nose on the final assembly line of the aircraft.
Claims20
An aircraft nose comprising a primary fuselage structure, and housed inside said structure:
- a cockpit;
- and
- an avionics bay containing a plurality of avionics racks receiving at least one of electrical and electronic equipment;
- the cockpit and the avionics bay each being made in the form of a distinct module that is suitable for being installed in a single operation inside the primary fuselage structure.
A method of fitting out an aircraft nose, the aircraft nose comprising a primary fuselage structure that defines inside said structure a space for fitting out, the space being open at a rear end of the nose, the method comprising the following steps:
- introducing a cockpit module via the rear end of the nose;
- moving the cockpit module in translation inside the primary fuselage structure towards the front end of the nose until it reaches a location reserved for housing said cockpit module;
- fastening the cockpit module to the primary fuselage structure;
- inserting an avionics bay module via the rear end of the nose;
- moving the avionics bay module inside the primary fuselage structure towards the front end of the nose until it reaches a location reserved for housing said avionics bay module;
- and
- fastening the avionics bay module to the primary fuselage structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.