The Boeing Company

William Clifton Cromer

Genesis Marvin Pilarca

Matthew Joseph Woerly

Thomas J Connelly

Linda M Li

Robert Everett Logan, Jr

Robert E Logan

Thomas Joseph Connelly

An aircraft structure including a heat shield. A heat shield including an interior; a skin enclosing the interior; a plurality of barriers attached in the interior to the skin, each of the barriers spaced to separate a plurality of thermal insulation layers disposed in the interior; and wherein the barriers suppress heat flow between the thermal insulation layers.

Advanced plume suppressing segmented heat shield

A heat shield for an aircraft. The heat shield comprises a lower skin configured to be exposed to exhaust heat of a jet engine, and side skins that are indirectly joined to the lower skin.

Heat shield for an aircraft

Presently disclosed sliding joint kits, sliding joints, and systems including the same may be configured to join a first panel and a second panel together such that at least a portion of the first panel and second panel are in sliding contact with one another, thereby allowing movement of one panel with respect to the other. In this manner, panels may be joined together while still allowing thermal expansion and resulting movement of one panel relative to the other. For example, presently disclosed sliding joints may be used to join panels of an aircraft heat shield together, which may result in reduced buckling and/or reduced joint stress of the panels of the heat shield. Related methods of assembling a sliding joint kit to join a first panel and a second panel are also disclosed.

Sliding joint kits, systems containing the same, and related methods

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Seattle, WA, United States of America

William Clifton Cromer