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Alan Dicey wrote:

Indeed. The shuttle tiles have astonishing insulation properties, but
are composed of 10% silica fibres, 90% air with a borosilicate glass
coating and have no load-bearing capacity to speak of. They would be
crushed by the first person to walk on them, never mind an aircraft tyre.

Most of the white areas on the top of the shuttle are nomex blanket
type material. Blending something like that in with non-skid coating
shouldn't be too hard to do, and provide enough thermal insulation.

John
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John Clear - http://www.clear-prop.org/