Lufthansa Technik Ag

Arno Strotmann

Tobias Adugna

Kai-Christoph Pfingsten

Matthias Exner

An antenna cladding is for fastening fuselage fittings protruding from an outer skin of the aircraft. The antenna cladding has a carrier for fastening antenna modules thereto; a radome fuselage cladding fastened to the carrier for contact on the outer skin; and a radome cover, which forms a continuous cover and lining for electromagnetic radiation in a predetermined wavelength range with the radome fuselage cladding. The carrier is a fiber composite adapter plate made of fiber having recesses with inserts, which have connection fittings for connection to the fuselage fittings. The connection fittings are arranged between upper and lower faces of the adapter plate and are designed such that the connection fittings do not protrude beyond the upper side of the adapter plate and the fuselage fittings do not protrude into the adapter plate when connected to the connection fittings, but do not project beyond the upper side thereof.

Antenna cladding for aircraft

A radome wall for communication in a frequency band of from 17 to 31 GHz for use on commercial aircraft includes a multilayer structure having an alternating arrangement of force-absorbing solid cover layers and sheer-rigid core layers. The radome wall includes at least four of the cover layers, of which two form outer sides of the radome wall, the cover layers and the core layers being made of a dielectric material.

Radome wall for communication applications

A passenger aircraft () comprising a pressurized cabin, which comprises a top volume () and a passenger deck (), the passenger deck () comprising at least one passenger compartment () separated from the rest of the passenger volume () by walls (), is characterized in that a burstable wall () that extends below the ceiling () of the passenger volume and defines the passenger compartment () is arranged so as to be adjacent to the side wall (), the space () between the burstable wall () and the side wall () being open towards the top volume () and forming a common pressure chamber therewith.

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Hamburg, Germany

Arno Strotmann