Single-skin thrust reverser for aircraft jet engines

A thrust reverser adapted for use with an aircraft jet engine having a jet exhaust pipe from which a jet of gaseous products emerges, said reverser comprising two symmetrical doors, each of which is at least substantially hemi-truncated in form, having opposed arcuate leading and trailing edges and opposed rectilinear side edges,

• said doors being mounted to pivot about an axis adjacent said trailing edges, said axis being transverse and substantially diametrical with respect to the jet of said engine, and which is disposed downstream of the jet exhaust pipe thereof,
• each of said doors comprising a thin wall having a concave inner face and a convex outer face, and
• elongated reinforcing members attached to said concave face adjacent the arcuate leading and trailing edges and the rectilinear side edges thereof, said reinforcing members projecting inwardly from said concave face, at least half of said inner concave face being exposed to contact with said jet,
• said wall having a crescent-shaped section at its rearward end, defined by the trailing edge of said wall and said reinforcing member adjacent thereto, said section having an inner concave and an outer convex face which form continuations of the concave and convex faces of said wall,
• an arcuate lining having two faces which intersect to form a trough having an approximately V-shaped cross-section, said lining spanning the reinforcing member adjacent the trailing edge of said door with said reinforcing member in the trough of said lining, said lining faces comprising a rearward face covering substantially all of the concave face of said crescent-shaped section and a forward face covering less than half of the concave face of said wall,
• each door being movable between a first, folded position in which said outer face forms an extension of a section of said aircraft, and a second, unfolded position in which said outer face is disposed transversely with respect to said jet.