Fire Resistant Aircraft Unit Load Devices and Fire Containment Covers: A New Development in the Global Air Cargo Industry

Unit load devices (ULDs) are pallets and containers which are used to carry air cargo, mail and passenger baggage on wide-body aircraft. This paper analyses two important recent developments in the suppression of fires on freighter aircraft – fire resistant containers and fire containment covers for...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Glenn Baxter, Kyriakos Kourousis, Graham Wild
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Aeronáutica e Espaço (IAE) 2014-05-01
Series:Journal of Aerospace Technology and Management
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Online Access:https://www.jatm.com.br/jatm/article/view/327