Patent ID: 7677498

Claim:
A radome system for an aircraft having a fuselage, said radome system comprising: a radome having a curved inside surface and an outside surface; a plurality of first fasteners mounted substantially equidistant to each other along an entire inner perimeter of said radome and on the curved inside surface of said radome, each first fastener comprising a first radome member attached to the radome, a corresponding first fuselage member configured to attach the first radome member to the fuselage and a first linking member linking the first radome member to the first fuselage member, each first radome member being configured to have zero degrees of freedom relative to the first linking member during positioning of the radome relative to the fuselage and said radome is fixed along two distinct axes contained in a plane approximately perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of each first fastener; and a plurality of second fasteners distributed between said plurality of first fasteners and mounted on the inside of said radome, each second fastener comprising a second radome member attached to the radome, a corresponding second fuselage member configured to attach the second radome member to the fuselage and a second linking member linking the second radome member to the second fuselage member, each second radome member being configured to have one degree of freedom relative to the second linking member during positioning of the radome relative to the fuselage and said radome is fixed along a single axis of a plane approximately perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of each second fastener.