Patent ID: 8226037

Claim:
An aircraft door assembly of an aircraft having a fuselage including a door opening, the aircraft door assembly comprising: a door frame surrounding the door opening; a door including an outer skin defining an outer side of the door, the door being liftable from a locked closed position to an unlocked closed position and pivotable from the unlocked closed position to an open position, wherein the door is disposed outside the door frame and outside the fuselage in the open position, wherein the door is pivotable from the open position to the unlocked closed position and lowerable from the unlocked closed position to the locked closed position; a door gap disposed between the door frame and an edge of the door when the door is in the locked closed position; and a door gap covering element disposed outboard of the outer side of the door and extending over at least a portion of the outer skin and covering the door gap when the door is in the locked position, wherein the door gap covering element is movable relative to the outer side of the door.