Mobile composite cover as an element of the safety system during aircraft operations in random situations

Abstract

Ensuring the safety of aircraft during flight operations was, is and will be one of the most important issues in the functioning and development of aviation. The safety of flight operations is influenced by all elements participating in this process, which can be divided into three groups, i.e.: humans, aircraft and the environment, including airfield pavements. Airfield pavements are elements that can be destroyed intentionally as a result of military operations as well as as a result of unexpected random situations (failure, catastrophe, natural disaster). Efficient reconstruction of airfield pavements in crisis situations and in warfare should enable the restoration of operational readiness of destroyed functional elements of the airport in the shortest possible time. Previous methods and technologies for the reconstruction of airfield pavements destroyed in random situations were not able to meet the high time regimes. Based on experience gained during foreign trips to engineering units of the Air Force (Great Britain, Germany, the United States of America, France), the ELP-1 KRATER mobile composite cover was designed and constructed in our country. The cover produced by Zulawy Shipyard guarantees safe conditions for aircraft during flight operations.

Portable airfield covers can be successfully used in crisis situations when rebuilding functional elements of airports, as well as when making helicopter landing pads in adventitious conditions both in the country and in outside missions.  The article presents the operational and utility values ​​of the ELP-1 KRATER mobile composite cover, the scope of the laboratory tests carried out and the results of some of them, as well as the theoretical analysis of the operating conditions of the portable airfield cover.