Turbofan gas turbine engine with variable fan outlet guide vanes
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsPeter John Wood, Ruby Lasandra Zenon, Donald George LaChapelle, Mark Joseph Mielke, Carl Grant
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AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsPeter John Wood, Ruby Lasandra Zenon, Donald George LaChapelle, Mark Joseph Mielke, Carl Grant
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A turbofan gas turbine engine includes a forward fan section with a row of fan rotor blades, a core engine, and a fan bypass duct downstream of the forward fan section and radially outwardly of the core engine. The forward fan section has only a single stage of variable fan guide vanes which are variable fan outlet guide vanes downstream of the forward fan rotor blades. An exemplary embodiment of the engine includes an afterburner downstream of the fan bypass duct between the core engine and an exhaust nozzle. The variable fan outlet guide vanes are operable to pivot from a nominal OGV position at take-off to an open OGV position at a high flight Mach Number which may be in a range of between about 2.5-4+. Struts extend radially across a radially inwardly curved portion of a flowpath of the engine between the forward fan section and the core engine.
A turbofan gas turbine engine comprising:
A turbofan gas turbine engine comprising:
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