Aircraft with retracted front landing gear
First Claim
1. An aircraft that has a fuselage elongated along a longitudinal axis X essentially along a longitudinal axis of the aircraft that determines a direction toward the front along a direction of motion of the aircraft in flight, said aircraft comprising in a forward section:
- a cockpit in front of a cockpit bulkhead; and
a front landing gear and a landing gear compartment associated with said front landing gear, said landing gear and said landing gear compartment being produced on and in the fuselage behind the cockpit bulkhead;
wherein the landing gear compartment is produced entirely or partly in a bulge of the fuselage, located behind and adjacent the cockpit bulkhead in a lower part of the fuselage, a profile of said bulge having a local downward extreme.
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Abstract
An aircraft has a fuselage of elongated form along a longitudinal axis X corresponding essentially to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft. In a first forward section, the fuselage includes a cockpit in front of a cockpit bulkhead and a front landing gear associated with a landing gear compartment located behind the cockpit bulkhead. The front landing gear and the landing gear compartment are at least partially beneath a floorboard of a compartment of a lower space of the fuselage and in a bulge that increases a volume available for installation of the landing gear.
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9 Claims
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1. An aircraft that has a fuselage elongated along a longitudinal axis X essentially along a longitudinal axis of the aircraft that determines a direction toward the front along a direction of motion of the aircraft in flight, said aircraft comprising in a forward section:
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a cockpit in front of a cockpit bulkhead; and a front landing gear and a landing gear compartment associated with said front landing gear, said landing gear and said landing gear compartment being produced on and in the fuselage behind the cockpit bulkhead; wherein the landing gear compartment is produced entirely or partly in a bulge of the fuselage, located behind and adjacent the cockpit bulkhead in a lower part of the fuselage, a profile of said bulge having a local downward extreme. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9)
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8. A method for producing an aircraft fuselage by assembling sections of fuselage, at least a first section delimited forwardly by a nose of the aircraft fuselage and rearwardly essentially by a cockpit bulkhead, at least a second section delimited forwardly by a rear of the first section and rearwardly by a rear section of the fuselage, wherein the first section comprises essentially a cockpit and an electronic cabinet devoted to technical applications, wherein second section comprises a bulge in a lower part of the fuselage and a front landing gear compartment at least partly in the bulge and adjacent to the cockpit bulkhead and an electronic cabinet devoted to commercial applications and wherein the second section is selected between a plurality of models having a same forward joining cross section fitting with the first section and different rear joining cross sections to fit with different models of rear section of fuselage, the second section being selected to fit to the rear section of the fuselage to be produced.
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