Abstract: A flexible boot for covering and protecting protruding aircraft structures. The flexible boot is especially well adapted to cover and protect aircraft nose cones. In such an application the boot also protects electronic equipment including radar equipment typically located within the nose cone or radome area of the aircraft. The flexible boot has the advantage that it may be packaged by rolling it up. Preferably no discernible creases or wrinkles develop in the surface of the boot while it remains in rolled-up condition or thereafter when unrolled prior to use. The boot is formed of a flexible curved and continuous cap having a closed end and an opposed open end. The peripheral edge at the open end of the cap lies at or above the equator of the largest sphere which can be inscribed within the cap.

Abstract: A hand tool designed to cut across a length of decorative wide body molding material and simultaneously shape the cut end to receive an insert piece cut by the same hand tool from scrap molding material to form a finished end for a molding strip. The tool makes the two cuts in the molding material to provide the cut end on the strip and an insert when the molding is placed in the tool against angularly related guide members.

Abstract: Essentially continuous thermoplastic resin molding of complex decorative relief is produced by continuously extruding molten resin into a rotating forming wheel and cooling and removing the molded resin from the wheel. A doctor wheel cooperates with the forming wheel to provide a flat surface to which a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer may be applied for bonding the resin molding to an intended substrate.