The Boeing Company

Andrea C Saunders

Scott Wesley Lea

Darryl F Garrigus

Tuan Nguyen

Brad Lee Kirkwood

John Michael Costello

Kim Marie Larson

Stephen Thomas Johnson

Aircraft mission equipment (e.g., an electrical equipment cabinet) comprising a base plate equipped on a bottom with a plurality of air casters that provide flotation mobility. When the equipment is being loaded in or unloaded from an aircraft, the actuated air casters provide a plurality of air cushions. The total lift force produced by the air cushions is sufficient to float the equipment above and out of contact with the floor, thereby improving ease of handling and reducing point loads on the floor structure. Portions of the air distribution system that provides pressurized air to the air casters on the bottom of the base plate are structurally integrated into the base plate of the mission equipment.

Aircraft mission equipment having an integrated air caster handling system

A surface treatmentfor application to an aircraft wing surfaceis provided, including at least one reflective metallic filmbonded at least one hollow cell structureto provide a thermal barrier that inhibits non-environmental frost formation.

Aircraft surface ice inhibitor

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Andrea C Saunders