Heat pipe cooling of aircraft skins for infrared radiation matching
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Aug 20, 2002
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Dec 14, 1987
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A system and an apparatus for matching infrared radiation emitted from aircraft skins to background infrared radiation in order to minimize the contrast between the two radiations, and to thereby camouflage the aircraft from electro-optical detection systems. In particular, there are employed heat pipe systems and apparatus for cooling the internal surface of an aircraft skin, and especially the bottom portion of an airframe, for the camouflage of the aircraft from the look-up viewing aspect angles of electro-optical detection systems by transferring heat otherwise emitted by the skin to the fuel which is carried by the aircraft.
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