Loading of aircraft landing gear
AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorsMatthew R. DesJardien, Blair P. Nelson, Allan M. Kremenich, Zeyad A. Al Aqrabawi, Brian Van Horne
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Abstract
A method of loading a landing gear in an aircraft comprises accessing an ideal path specifying movement of the landing gear from a starting location to an expected mounting location on the aircraft; determining a difference between the expected mounting location and an actual mounting location on the aircraft; modifying the ideal path to move the expected mounting location to the actual mounting location; and moving the landing gear along the modified path.
Claims17
A method of loading a landing gear in an aircraft, the method comprising:
- accessing an ideal path specifying movement of the landing gear from a starting location at which the landing gear is not installed on the aircraft to an expected mounting location on the aircraft where the landing gear will be affixed to the aircraft;
- determining a difference between the expected mounting location and an actual mounting location on the aircraft;
- modifying the ideal path to move the expected mounting location to the actual mounting location;
- moving the landing gear along the modified path;
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- loading the landing gear onto the aircraft at the actual mounting location.
A system for loading aircraft landing gear in an aircraft, the system comprising:
- a multi-axis loader for rotating and translating the landing gear;
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- a controller programmed to access an ideal path for commanding the loader to move the landing gear from a starting location and orientation at which the landing gear is not installed on the aircraft to an ending orientation at an expected mounting location where the landing gear will be affixed to the aircraft;
- receive information about an actual mounting location in the aircraft;
- modify the ideal path so the loader moves the landing gear from the starting orientation and location to the ending orientation at the actual mounting location instead of the expected mounting location, and loading the landing gear onto the aircraft at the actual mounting location.
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