Patent ID: 11866157
Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 17:
18. A method of maintaining an aircraft comprising:
a wing including an upper skin, a lower skin and a front spar and a gear rib, wherein the gear rib includes an upper flange supporting the upper skin, a lower flange supporting the lower skin and a forward flange attached to the front spar,
mounts each having a first surface facing and attached to the web of the gear rib and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and
pintle supports each integral and forming a single piece component with a respective one of the mounts and extending outward from the first surface of the respective one of the mounts and each of the pintle supports includes an aperture configured to receive a pintle to rotatably support a landing gear assembly attached to the pintle,
the method comprising removing one or more of the pintle supports from the gear rib, wherein the removal includes removing at least one of the pintle supports from the web of the gear rib separately from other of the pintle supports.