Air Covers Secures Royal Air Force Typhoon Contract

Air Covers Ltd, The Queen’s Award winning business and specialist in the design of protective covers for the aerospace and marine sector, won a competitive bid this summer to provide environmental protective covers for 147 RAF Typhoon aircraft.  Air Covers also won the supply contract for the Typhoon Display Team.

Deliveries of the covers to RAF Coningsby have already started. A total of 50 complete sets have been dispatched to date, with a further 97 to follow.  Each cupola cover is made at Air Covers’ facility in Wrexham, North Wales. 

The Typhoon fleet will be protected with Air Covers’ full convection cooling cover technology.  The cupola covers are 30% lighter than the aircraft’s incumbent covers, which were also creating a heat sink effect, raising cockpit temperatures above ambient.  The new covers, which have been successfully trialed and tested with three air forces (with similar combat aircraft) in Italy, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia, are recognized as the only protective cover able to reduce cockpit temperature below ambient. 

The majority of the RAF Typhoon fleet will sport standard charcoal grey covers, but the Typhoon Display Team aircraft, operated by 29 Squadron at RAF Coningsby, will wear distinctive red covers. Air Covers printed two alternative cover logos for the Typhoon Display Team, before sharing them on Instagram and Facebook and invited followers to vote for their favorite.