Flight decks buckle from heat in 10 minutes

[unhappycamper]

An MV-22B Osprey lands aboard the amphibious assault ship Bataan in October. The aircraft's exhaust is so hot that it is melting flight decks.


Flight decks buckle from heat in 10 minutes
By Andrew Tilghman - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Nov 23, 2009 11:08:44 EST

Leaving an MV-22 Osprey’s rotors idling on a flight deck will create enough heat to melt and buckle the deck in about 10 minutes.

Repeated deck buckling will ruin the flight deck in about 40 percent of the ship’s projected life span.

And introducing the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jump-jet variant will only add to the problem.

Those are among the issues cited by the Office of Naval Research as it seeks a modification for flight decks to better withstand and distribute the heat from the new aircraft’s exhaust and downwash.

ONR is seeking proposals on how to build a “flight deck thermal management” system that will help distribute the heat from the aircraft and keep the deck temperatures below 300 degrees.


Rest of article at: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/11/navy_osprey_112209w/

[krispos42]

1. If only there was an unlimited source of water nearby...

...and the machinery and the power to pump it to where the hot spots are...


:eyes:

[cdsilv]

3. Oh yeah, nice corrosive salt water.....n/t

[Owl]

2. The Osprey must be an enormous energy hog.

[Captain Hilts]

4. That's why we don't use Harriers all that much. They use most fuel in the TO and landing. nt