Nacelle comprising an air entrance in a cap
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorsAlain Porte, Matthieu Fargues, Thomas Stevens
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Abstract
An aircraft nacelle includes an outside wall (22), at least one air system with at least one air intake (30), whereby the nacelle is connected by connecting element to a mast that is itself connected to the aircraft, with the connecting element allowing a relative movement between the nacelle and the mast in the longitudinal direction of the nacelle, whereby at the front of the junction zone with the nacelle, the mast includes an aerodynamic surface that is called a fairing (24) that covers and exposes a zone of the outside wall called an overlapping zone (28) based on the position of the nacelle (10) relative to the mast, characterized in that an air intake (30) for an air system is arranged at the overlapping zone (28).
Claims14
An aircraft propulsion system that comprises:
- a nacelle comprising an outside wall and at least one air system with at least one air intake;
- a power plant arranged in the nacelle;
- a mast that is connected to the aircraft, the power plant being connected to said mast;
- said mast comprising a front part with an aerodynamic surface, said aerodynamic surface is a fairing that comprises a lower edge that adjoins the outside wall of the nacelle;
- said nacelle being movable in a longitudinal direction of the nacelle relative to the mast between a rear position and a front position according to an aerodynamic load produced by the power plant,
- a zone of the outside wall that is an overlapping zone being covered by the fairing when the nacelle is in a rear position and being not covered by the fairing when the nacelle is in a front position,
- the at least one air intake for an air system arranged at said overlapping zone.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.