Airbus Operations Gmbh

Isabell Gradert

Nicole Jordan

Ottmar Schramm

A method for coating a surface of an aircraft is provided. The method comprises the steps of cutting to size at least one film section from a shrinkable film material in such a manner that the film section relative to a surface section of the aircraft, which surface section is to be coated with the film section, comprises an overmeasure that is determined by the degree of shrinkage of the film material; applying the film section and a functional coating to the surface section so that the functional coating is arranged between the surface section and the film section; and shrinking the film section by heating it to a temperature that corresponds at least to the shrinkage temperature of the film section and at least to the flow temperature of the functional coating until the contours of the film section largely conform to the contours of the surface section.

Method for coating a surface of an aircraft and an aircraft coated through this method

A tool for producing a layer with a micro structured outer surface on a substrate surface is provided. The tool includes an elastic matrix web with a negative of the micro structure to be produced, an elastic pressure roller that is movable over a surface, and at least one guiding element for guiding the elastic matrix web relative to the pressure roller. The pressure roller and the matrix web are arranged in such a manner that when the pressure roller is moved over the substrate surface, the negative on the matrix web faces the substrate surface. In this manner particularly good directional stability and guiding precision of the matrix web can be achieved.

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