Fluidic nozzle control system

Abstract

A control system for selectively adjusting effective flow areas of an aircraft engine exhaust nozzle to change operational characteristics of the nozzle. The control system includes a chamber having a hollow interior, a plurality of outlet passages extending from the hollow interior of the chamber to sites within the exhaust nozzle, and an adjustable inlet extending from a pressurized air source to the hollow interior of the chamber for delivering a jet of pressurized air to the chamber. The inlet is adjustable to direct pressurized air to selected one or more outlet passages for the delivery of air via the one or more outlets to corresponding one or more sites within the exhaust nozzle, thereby to change the operational characteristics of the nozzle.

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