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Underneath The Airliner’s Cabin Floor
WHAT IS UNDERNEATH THE CABIN FLOOR?
By Airline Ratings
While passengers sit comfortably in an airliner’s cabin enjoying their inflight entertainment systems and meals served onboard (at least on international flights), myriad other activities are going on below the floor under their feet.
Starting at the nose of the
aircraft, a maze of computers and electronic equipment is housed in the
avionics bays located just below the cockpit.
Immediately aft of that is
the wheel well that holds the retracted nose landing gear inflight, and then
the cabin pressurization equipment.
Multiple air-conditioning “packs” are ahead of the forward
baggage bay filled with luggage and cargo which is packed in large bins on
wide-body aircraft.
In the center of the lower
fuselage is the wing spar carry-through, sometimes fitted with a center fuel
tank on long-range aircraft.
Behind the wing box are the
main landing gear wells, and then the aft baggage bays.
Lavatory service equipment is
located in both the forward and aft lower fuselage, and finally the APU or
Auxiliary Power Unit is mounted in the tail.
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