NASA NTRS · 19880043559
In-flight environmental effects on airplane composite vertical fin caps
Abstract
The NASA-Langley Storm Hazards Program has given attention to the effects of severe in-flight weather environments on composite structures, using an instrumented F-106B in storm penetration experiments. The vertical fin cap was chosen for the study of lightning strike attachments on composite structures of four different types: (1) glass/epoxy with flame-sprayed aluminum; (2) Kevlar/epoxy with aluminized glass cloth; (3) graphite-epoxy without lightning protection; and (4) unprotected graphite-epoxy with electrical isolation from the rest of the aircraft structure. Flight test results are evaluated.
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Howell, William E., Fisher, Bruce D.. 1987-10-01. In-flight environmental effects on airplane composite vertical fin caps. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19880043559
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