Ok, I've had the department rush together a type of armour that would be 
of use to SkyKnight.  There were a few problems that they found, mainly 
keeping it light and keeping the plating down to a small size in terms of 
thickness.

What they came up with is a composite sandwich material.  The first 
underlayer consists of carbon flexfibre set into strips going on way.  
The strips are then crossed the opposite way with a heat proof polymer 
unguent.  Two more layers go at diagonals to the form.  On top of that is 
a layer of Starlite.  According to the technical specifications we have 
from the National Science Archives, the layer can be .7 mm thick.  This 
brings the total plating thickness up to 1.5 cm at this time.  A polymer 
coating containing a laser resistant base is placed on top and a heat 
resistant unguent is placed on top of that.  A coating of Ceramel type 
four is placed on top of the unguent.  Over that is a specialized coating 
consisting small individually connected ceramel superconductors 
approximately 1 centimeter in diameter in a oxogonal arrangement to 
provide strength.  The next layer consists of plasmel 5, which has enough 
give not to shatter under vibrational intensity.  The final layer should 
be a metal coating consisting of aluminum and silver.  This provides the 
least magnetic resistance with the highest reflectivity allowing lasers 
to more easy bounce off which the individual superconductors provide 
small electromagnetic repulsion fields for a distance of about 58 cm.

Remember, this is only theoretical and rushed.  They still do not have 
the computer simulations back on how it would work.  According to my 
people, it will take at least two weeks of sims in the situation I 
described to fully check out how it will work.  They also warn that 
computer sims do not reflect what could happen in real life unless the 
process used to put it together was done in highly controlled conditions 
and under conputer construction control.

I hope it helps.

Ichinohei Hitomi
Hitomi@escape.ca