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US 12,595,066 B1Granted
Blended wing aircraft
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsArthur William Sibbach, Brandon Wayne Miller, Jeffrey Donald Clements, Daniel Alan Niergarth
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Abstract
A blended wing aircraft is provided, including a body having a fuselage and a pair of wings extending outward from the fuselage; and an aircraft engine defining an outlet and including a thrust reverser assembly, the thrust reverser assembly including a deployable structure extending less than 360 degrees around the outlet.
Claims15
A blended wing aircraft comprising:
- a body having a fuselage and a pair of wings extending outward from the fuselage;
- and
- an aircraft engine defining an outlet and comprising a thrust reverser assembly, the thrust reverser assembly comprising a deployable structure extending less than 360 degrees around the outlet, wherein the aircraft engine comprises a turbomachine and an outer nacelle surrounding at least in part the turbomachine to define a bypass passage, wherein the deployable structure is a clamshell door moveable between a forward thrust position and a reverse thrust position, wherein the clamshell door is positioned over at least a portion of the outlet when in the reverse thrust position and wherein the outlet is defined by the outer nacelle, and wherein the turbomachine defines an exhaust, and wherein the clamshell door defines a cutout downstream of the exhaust when in the reverse thrust position.
An aircraft engine for a blended wing aircraft, the aircraft engine comprising:
- an outer nacelle defining an outlet, the outer nacelle configured to be positioned adjacent to a body of the aircraft when the aircraft engine is installed on the body of the aircraft;
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- a thrust reverser assembly coupled to the outer nacelle, the thrust reverser assembly comprising a deployable structure extending less than 360 degrees around the outlet;
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- a turbomachine, wherein the outer nacelle surrounds at least in part the turbomachine to define a bypass passage, wherein the deployable structure is a clamshell door moveable between a forward thrust position and a reverse thrust position, wherein the clamshell door is positioned over at least a portion of the outlet when in the reverse thrust position, and wherein the turbomachine defines an exhaust, and wherein the clamshell door defines a cutout downstream of the exhaust when in the reverse thrust position.
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A blended wing aircraft comprising:
- a body having a fuselage and a pair of wings extending outward from the fuselage;
- and
- an aircraft engine defining an outlet and comprising a thrust reverser assembly, the thrust reverser assembly comprising a deployable structure extending less than 360 degrees around the outlet, wherein the deployable structure is a translating cowl moveable between a forward thrust position and a reverse thrust position, wherein the body defines a top side and a bottom side, wherein the aircraft engine is mounted on the top side, and wherein the body further defines a reverse thrust passage extending from the aircraft engine to the bottom side when the translating cowl is in the reverse thrust position.
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