Patent ID: 7938361

Claim:
A jet blast wall structure to withstand and deflect high temperature jet blasts from the jet engines of aircraft, comprising: a plurality of panels, each of which has a front panel face and edge frame members at each side of said front panel face to which the front panel face is secured; wherein each edge frame member has a square C configuration with the base of the square C located at the edge of the panel, whereby adjacent panels are secured one to the other by placing the respective bases of the respective edge frame members in back-to-back relationship and passing bolts through holes in the bases of the edge frame members and tightening nuts thereonto; and wherein each front panel face is made substantially of fiberglass, and each edge frame member, each bolt, and each nut, is made from fiberglass, and wherein the jet blast wall structure exhibits transparency to radar and radio frequency signals found at airports, and wherein the bolts are dimensioned and constructed of fiberglass material so as to have a predetermined shear strength, whereby in the event of impact of an aircraft with the jet blast wall structure, the bolts in the edge frame members of the impacted panel or panels will fail in shear so as to permit the impacted panel or panels to collapse and thereby preclude significant damage to the impacting aircraft.