Systems and methods are provided for assembling aircraft fuselages. One embodiment is a method for assembling a fuselage of an aircraft. The method includes indexing an arcuate section of a fuselage to a frame installation station, feeding a frame at the frame installation station into a concavity defined by the arcuate section, placing the frame against an Inner Mold Line (IML) of the arcuate section while the frame is within the concavity, and affixing the frame to the arcuate section.
FRAME INSTALLATION STATION FOR AIRCRAFT FUSELAGE SEGMENTS
2022-05-19
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
FRAME INSTALLATION STATION FOR AIRCRAFT FUSELAGE SEGMENTS
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