Patent ID: 8215582
Filing Date: 2012-07-10
Classification: B64C

Abstract:
1. An aircraft fuselage interior comprising a side wall with an interior surface that extends in a direction along the length of the fuselage and includes an upper section that slopes inwardly, wherein the side wall includes a multiplicity of window apertures arranged along the length of the fuselage, and a multiplicity of visible elongate elements arranged along the length of the interior surface of the side wall, the arrangement of the elongate elements being such that: each elongate element is spaced apart on the interior surface of the side wall from the window apertures, and positioned above the average level of the tops of the window apertures, each elongate element extends from a lower portion to an upper portion, wherein, with increasing distance upwards along each elongate element, the interior surface of the side wall progressively slopes inwards, each elongate element slopes longitudinally either fore or aft relative to a notional line defined by the intersection of the interior surface of the side wall and a plane whose normal axis is parallel to the length of the fuselage, and wherein either i) the average angle of sloping of the visible elongate elements in one longitudinal direction on the interior surface of the side wall is greater than the average angle of sloping of the visible elongate elements in the opposite longitudinal direction on the side interior surface of the wall, or ii) the number of visible elongate elements on the interior surface of the side wall that slope in one longitudinal direction is greater than the number of elongate elements on the interior surface of the side wall that slope in the opposite longitudinal direction, or iii) those elongate elements sloping in one longitudinal direction on the interior surface of the side wall are given greater visual prominence than those elongate elements sloping in the opposite longitudinal direction, and wherein the effect of the sloping of all such visible elongate elements present on the interior surface of the side wall is such that the inwardly sloping section of the interior surface of the side wall, when viewed from the centre of the fuselage in a direction towards either the fore or the aft of the aircraft, appears to have a degree of inward sloping less than the actual degree of inward sloping, and wherein the effect of the sloping is greater in one direction than the other.