Patent ID: 6554226
Filing Date: 2003-04-29
Classification: B64C

Abstract:
Skin of an airplane door, which conforms in use to a surrounding surface contour of an airplane fuselage, said skin being connected with a door frame which has supports arranged in a longitudinal direction of the fuselage and spaced with respect to one another in a circumferential direction, said skin being expose during flight to internal fuselage pressures acting in a pressure load direction, andwherein the skin is connected with the supports of the door frame and is preformed against said pressure load direction of the internal fuselage pressures with a predetermined shape extending inwardly of the airplane fuselage, said predetermined shape being selected such that when the airplane with the door is at cruising altitude the internal fuselage pressures deform the skin away from the predetermined shape so as to conform the exterior of the skin with adjacent exterior surfaces of the fuselage.