Method and apparatus for suppressing aeroengine contrails
AssigneeROLLS-ROYCE plc
InventorsFrank G. Noppel, Riti Singh, Mark D. Taylor
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Abstract
A method of operating an aircraft, and the aircraft itself, comprising a gas turbine engine that exhausts a plume of gases in use, the aircraft is characterised by comprising an electromagnetic radiation generator and a waveguide to direct electromagnetic radiation at the exhaust plume to avoid the formation of contrails.
Claims18
An aircraft comprising a gas turbine engine that exhausts a plume of gases in use, the aircraft is characterised by comprising an electromagnetic radiation generator and a waveguide to direct sufficient electromagnetic radiation at the exhaust plume to significantly reduce the formation of contrails.
A method of operating an aircraft comprising a gas turbine engine that exhausts a plume of gases in use, the aircraft is characterised by comprising an electromagnetic radiation generator and a waveguide to direct electromagnetic radiation at the exhaust plume, the method comprises the step of operating the electromagnetic radiation generator to avoid the formation of contrails.
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