Belly (aviation)
In aviation, the term Belly ( English "belly" ), the lower (i. E. Below the passenger deck) located spaces of an aircraft. The term is sometimes used as a synonym for the underfloor holds. " Unit load devices " containing baggage , mail or cargo can be loaded here on large passenger or cargo aircraft , or loose items secured with nets, mostly on smaller aircraft (e.g. BAe 146 ). For this purpose, the freight is usually brought to the height of the loading space with lifting tables and then rolled up.
In addition to cargo spaces, the belly can also accommodate galleys , toilets , rest rooms for the crew and some of the fuel tanks . On the Ilyushin Il-86 and the current Air Force One , a Boeing 747 -200B, there are also passenger doors with extendable stairs on the lower deck so that passengers can leave the aircraft without passenger boarding bridges.
See also
- Fuselage
- Belly landing ( English "belly landing" )
literature
- Johannes Alram: Post-merger network integration from the perspective of belly cargo using the example of Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines and Swiss . European air freight market, law and competition, strategy, cost function, network design and model for optimizing flight routes in the context of belly freight. 1st edition. University of Kassel , Kassel 2011 ( online [PDF; accessed October 7, 2016]).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Belly. In: Transport Information Service. General Association of the German Insurance Industry , accessed on October 7, 2016 .