Anyone know what if any modifications are necessary to protect the flight deck from a direct blast from the engines?
Yes, they have heat resistant stuff on them apparently, they learned from Harriers and stuff. Plus other jets take off with after burners and they are protected from that and from the hard landings those aircraft have.
It's made of asbestos. It's fireproof. No worries. lol
Same stuff used for years...AV8Bs did more damage to the decks than this...This aircraft is designed to mitigate a lot of that damage...It looks pretty knarly with the single jet blast coming down like that, but put this vid side to side with a Harrier and you will see a tremendous difference...