Cooled jet blast deflectors for aircraft carrier flight decks

摘要

Jet blast deflector panels hinged to the deck of an aircraft carrier are pivotally displaced through mechanical actuators to raised angular positions for deflecting exhaust plumes from jet propelled aircraft during take-off to protect closely spaced approaching aircraft which are to take-off thereafter in front of the deflector panels. The underside surface of each deflector panel is formed from a thermal insulating material to provide thermal protection from heating by impinging jet exhaust plumes, and is subsequently cooled by blasts of fluid or air beneath the deck when the deflector panel is in its lowered retracted position.