Fuselage airframe
AssigneeAirbus Helicopters Deutschland GmbH
InventorsAxel FINK, Andreas RACK, Philipp HOEFER
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AssigneeAirbus Helicopters Deutschland GmbH
InventorsAxel FINK, Andreas RACK, Philipp HOEFER
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A fuel tank and a differential frame in a fuselage airframe of a helicopter, the fuel tank being installed between the fuselage lower cover shell and the floor panel. The differential frame separates the fuel tank into two individual compartments, the differential frame having a web below the floor panel with a variable-height with a minimum height at the symmetry axis of the fuselage cross-section and a maximum height at lateral frame roots regions. A transversal beam is attached at each of its both ends to the differential frame bridging the entire variable-height of the differential frame and the fuel tank with two front and rear fuel bladders covering both individual tank compartments with a middle bladder installed between the transversal beam and the variable-height web of the differential frame.
A fuselage airframe of a helicopter comprising a subfloor compartment for a fuel tank, encompassed by a concave cover shell, standard frames and a floor panel covering substantially entirely said subfloor compartment above the concave cover shell, wherein at least one differential frame is mounted to the concave cover shell, said at least one differential frame being perpendicular and symmetric with regard to a longitudinal axis and having an upper section above the floor panel and a lower section below the floor panel and respectively lateral frame root regions merging the upper and lower sections, said at least one differential frame partitioning the subfloor compartment between the standard frames, characterized in that the lower section of the at least one differential frame has a web with variable-heights with respect to the cover shell between a minimum height at the longitudinal axis and a maximum height at the lateral frame root regions, and in that at least one transversal beam is provided, said at least one transversal beam bridging the entire web portion of the lower section with the variable-height of the at least one differential frame and being hingedly attached at its both lateral ends to the lower section of the at least one differential frame by means of at least one bolt.
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