METHOD OF ASSEMBLY OF FLYING VEHICLE FUSELAGE Russian patent published in 1995 - IPC

FIELD: manufacture of aircraft equipment. SUBSTANCE: method provides for assembly of compartments which have no flange joints followed by coupling them in unit; in course of assembling the compartment in jig, boundary angles are mounted over outside contour of skin at points of joints which are based on plates of jig joints. Boundary angles form outside technological flanges on whose base coupling of compartments 1, 2 and 3 is effected beyond assembly jig, thus forming unit, after which boundary angles are replaced with standard coupling bands fitted over inner contour of compartment skin. EFFECT: reduction of assembly cycle and consumption of labour for assembly of fuselage from compartments which have no flange joints. 5 dwg