The Boeing Company

Jeffrey D Eichinger

Douglas Alan McCarville

Michael Leslie Hand

Juan C Guzman

Tab Hunter Crooks

Kevin Darrell Pate

Conley Siddoway Thatcher

Keith Y Chong

Brian Lee Muench

Ilsop Steven Yoon

John Stanley Jones

Edwin B Curry

Douglas A Mccarville

A method of partially insulating an interior space of a pre-formed fluted core panel is disclosed herein. The fluted core panel includes a first facesheet, a second facesheet spaced apart from the first facesheet, and webs between the first facesheet and second facesheet. The interior space is defined between the first facesheet, the second facesheet, and adjacent webs. The method includes positioning a spacer in a first portion of the interior space, positioning a membrane between the spacer and a second portion of the interior space, and positioning insulation in the second portion of the interior space. Additionally, the method includes pressing the membrane against the spacer, curing the membrane, and removing the spacer from the first portion of the interior space.

Methods of internally insulating a fluted core sandwich structure

A method and apparatus for covering a fastener system. In one illustrative embodiment, an apparatus comprises a cover. The cover is configured to be placed over a fastener system at a surface of an object in which the fastener system is installed. The cover is comprised of a number of composite materials selected such that the cover is configured to reduce an effect of an electrical discharge, which occurs around the fastener system, on an environment outside the cover.

Apparatus for covering a fastener system

A method of forming a heat shield that involves thermally stabilizing a plurality of phenolic microspheres; mixing the thermally stabilized phenolic microspheres with a phenolic resin to form a phenolic ablative material; compressing the phenolic ablative material into a honeycomb core; and allowing the phenolic ablative material to cure.

Heatshield having strain compliant matrix and method of forming same

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Fountain Valley, CA, United States of America

Jeffrey D Eichinger