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US 9,283,711 B1Granted
Hybrid ablative thermal protection systems and associated methods
AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorsBryan Clark Brewer, Patrick Jacob Mobers
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Abstract
A method of forming a thermal protection system for high speed aircraft is described. The method includes mechanically working an uncured ablator material into a first surface of a felt layer such that the ablator material penetrates a distance into a thickness of the felt layer thereby forming an region that has a mixture of felt and ablator material, adding additional uncured ablator material to the worked ablator material, and curing the combined ablator material.
Claims8
A method of forming a thermal protection system for high speed aircraft comprising:
- mechanically working a first amount of uncured, silicone-based ablator material into a first surface of a felt layer such that the ablator material penetrates a distance into a thickness of the felt layer thereby forming a region in the felt layer exposed at the first surface that has a mixture of felt and ablator material;
- adding a second amount of uncured, silicone-based ablator material to the first surface across the worked ablator material at the region formed in the felt layer such that the first and second amounts of uncured, silicone-based ablator material are combined;
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- curing the combined ablator material.
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