General Electric Company

Alan Patrick St Hilaire

Dean Thomas Lenahan

Peter Andrew Simeone

Jeremy Stephen Wigon

Dennis Centeno Iglesias

James Patrick McGovern

Jeremy Stephan Wigon

A method facilitates assembling a gas turbine engine. The method comprises providing a rotor assembly including a rotor shaft and a rotor disk that includes a radially outer rim, a radially inner hub, and an integral web extending therebetween, wherein the rotor assembly is rotatable about an axis of rotation extending through the rotor shaft, and coupling a disk retainer including at least one discharge tube to the rotor disk wherein the discharge tube extends outwardly from the disk retainer for pumping the air to a higher pressure before discharging cooling fluid therefrom in a direction that is substantially perpendicular with respect to the axis of rotation.

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Danvers, MA, United States of America

Alan Patrick St Hilaire