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US 10,246,197 B2Granted
Aircraft
AssigneeROLLS-ROYCE plc
InventorsRory D Stieger, Matthew Moxon, Mikko Mattila
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Abstract
An aircraft (10) comprising a fuselage (12), the fuselage (10) comprising at least first and second inwardly tapering portions (20, 22) extending in a generally rearward direction from an aft end of the fuselage (12), each inwardly tapering portion (20, 22) comprising a boundary layer ingesting propulsor (36) mounted thereon.
Claims11
An aircraft having a central axis along a longitudinal direction of the aircraft, the aircraft comprising:
- a fuselage including a main portion and a tail end portion, the tail end portion including a bifurcation that divides the fuselage along the central axis into at least a first inwardly tapering portion and a second inwardly tapering portion at an aft end of the fuselage, the first inwardly tapering portion and the second inwardly tapering portion each including at least one surface tapering inward towards the central axis relative to the main portion in both a width direction and a height direction of the aircraft, which are each orthogonal to the longitudinal direction;
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- a boundary layer ingesting propulsor mounted on each of the first inwardly tapering portion and the second inwardly tapering portion of the tail end portion of the fuselage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.