Patent ID: 8156745

Claim:
An aircraft gas turbine engine exhaust nozzle basesheet comprising: a longitudinally extending plurality of basesheet segments, each of the basesheet segments including a panel body extending between longitudinally spaced apart segment leading and trailing edges and transversely spaced apart first and second segment side edges, segmented first and second basesheet side edges extending longitudinally between spaced apart basesheet leading and trailing edges of the basesheet, the first and second basesheet side edges comprising the first and second segment side edges respectively, slidable sealing joints with slidingly un-restrained center surfaces at adjacent ones of the segment leading and trailing edges, slidably sealingly engaged overlapping flanges at the adjacent ones of the segment leading and trailing edges, the slidingly un-restrained center surfaces being located on the overlapping flanges, and tacked together transversely spaced apart first and second distal ends of the overlapping flanges.