AIRCRAFT SIDE OF BODY JOINT

摘要

An aircraft, aircraft wing assembly, a beam for an aircraft, a fuselage and a method of machining an aircraft stringer are described. The aircraft includes a wing, a wing box and a splice chord. The wing is joined to the wing box at a side-of-body joint. The wing and the wing box each include a lower skin and a plurality of stringers on the lower skin. Ends of at least some of the plurality of stringers at the side-of-body joint have a web cutout and a tapered base that is spanwise tapered to a knife edge at the lower skin. The tapered bases of the ends are joined to the lower skin and each of the plurality of stringers further includes a cap flange that is joined to the splice chord.