Door fairing for an aircraft landing gear leg
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorsDominique CHASTEAU, Guilherme BARSALI
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Abstract
A door fairing for a retractable landing gear leg of an aircraft is disclosed having an outer member which covers a portion of a landing gear bay of the aircraft when the landing gear leg is retracted. An inner member of the door fairing is coupled to the outer member via a number of configurable couplings which allow adjustment of the position of the outer member with respect to the inner member. The inner member has mounting points for mounting the door fairing to the landing gear leg. Prior to fitting the door fairing at the aircraft, measured or derived dimensional parameters of the landing gear bay are used to adjust the configurable couplings such that the door fairing is preconfigured to fit the landing gear bay of the aircraft.
Claims16
A door fairing for attachment to a retractable landing gear leg of an aircraft, the door fairing comprising:
- an outer member for providing a door for an orifice of the aircraft when the retractable landing gear leg is in a retracted position;
- an inner member coupled to the outer member via a plurality of configurable couplings, the door fairing having at least one mounting device for mounting the inner member to the retractable landing gear leg;
- wherein
- the plurality of configurable couplings facilitate adjustment of the position of the outer member with respect to the inner member in dependence upon at least one dimensional parameter of the aircraft such that the door fairing is pre-configurable with respect to the orifice prior to being attached to the retractable landing gear leg.
A method of fitting a door fairing to a retractable landing gear leg of an aircraft, the door fairing being configured such that immediately before a step of fitting it to the landing gear it has at least one adjustable dimension that can be configured to compensate for variations, from one aircraft of a given design to another, that arise as a result of dimensional tolerances which affect the fit of the door fairing with the aircraft when the landing gear leg is retracted,
- the method comprising:
- prior to fitting the door fairing to the retractable landing gear leg of the aircraft, configuring at least one dimension of the door fairing in dependence upon at least one dimensional parameter of the aircraft so that the door fairing is pre-configured to fit an orifice of the aircraft when the landing gear leg is retracted;
- and then
- fitting the door fairing to the retractable landing gear leg of the aircraft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.