Tex Special Projects

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Tex Special Projects design, manufacture and integrate bespoke structural, engineering and glazing systems for both military and civilian application, and undertake research, design and development for leading edge engineering consultancies. Projects include navigation windows and modular flying control rooms for the Royal Navy Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers and engineered systems for the Indian Navy.

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Tex Special Projects, design and fabricate specialist engineering solutions, and undertake research and development for leading edge engineering consultancies. Projects include radio frequency-blocking glazing for both civilian and military applications, flying control rooms for the Royal Navy Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers and special projects for the Indian Navy.

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Tex ATC Division comprises a highly specialized and dedicated team of technical consultants, designers, and engineers; their wealth of expertise is second to none. Delivering elegant, precision-engineered solutions, Tex ATC Division have built strong partnerships with clients, architects and suppliers, ensuring a fully integrated turnkey service, from concept visualization to CAD drawings, and from manufacture to installation.

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Tex Special Projects (TSP) were approached in 2005, in a consultancy capacity, to investigate the feasibility for integrating a typical land based visual control room (VCR) design into the aircraft carrier island structural design as a Flying Control Room (FLYCO).

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Following delivery of a feasibility study report, the client project team engaged TSP to further develop the design to a mature stage and then a manufacturing contract was placed in 2007. Furthermore, Tex Special Projects were privileged to supply all of the QEC ship windows, wipers and blinds.

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Being a sea going platform, the requirements for the FLYCO were extremely testing and covered the full spectrum of usual land based VCR requirements; all in one go. Shock, ship motion, noise and electromagnetic attenuation, solar gain, blast, heated glass and CBRN.

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UK’s new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, the largest warship ever built for the Royal Navy, entered service in Portsmouth today, 7 Dec 2017. The Queen, ship’s company and 3,700 guests attended to see the Royal Navy White Ensign raised on the vessel for the first time. Tex Special Projects designed and manufactured the innovative Flying Control Room (FLYCO) and installed the glazing throughout the ship.

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Control Room design by Tex Special Projects. The Queen described the ship as “… the most powerful and capable ship ever to raise the White Ensign.”

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Finite Element Analysis

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The glazing incorporated a laminate build-up which addressed all requirement issues and TSP also designed, delivered and installed the cantilevered steelwork sponsons, which were the subject of finite element analysis (FEA) allowing enhanced structural optimisation. The design also incorporated a lost motion system at the top to isolate the glazing from the loading due to ship motion.

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The FLYCO offers a superlative air execution operating space which is completely unique in maritime defence and offers the operators a near uninterrupted 290 degree field of regard of the while flight deck. Legacy platform FLYCOs are typically cramped and limited in the ability to see and control air operations.