Patent ID: 11858613
Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 7:
8. A supersonic vehicle comprising:
a vehicle body;
an engine that generates heat during operation; and
a coating disposed on at least a portion of the engine and the vehicle body, the coating being configured to shift a wavelength of the heat generated by the engine to a frequency equal to or above a plasma frequency (ωp) of a neighboring medium surrounding the engine during supersonic operation, wherein the coating is an applied coating to the body and the engine of the supersonic vehicle, and wherein the neighboring medium is air surrounding the supersonic vehicle during high speed flight,
wherein the coating is applied to the body and the engine using thermal decomposition, coprecipitation, hydrothermal application, sol-gel, combustion, microwave, microemulsion, or a combination thereof.