Airbus Operations (s.a.s.)

Airbus (sas)

Airbus Corporation

Alexis Manneville

Olivier Cazals

Patrick Zaccaria

Paul-Emile Roux

Norbert Hirtz

Pierre-Henri Brousse

Christine Molliet

Damien Lozach

Valentin Theard

A system and a method for the automatic starting of the engines of a twin-engine aircraft. When a first engine is made by the pilots of the aircraft to follow an automatic starting procedure, this engine follows the conventional four-phase starting cycle. The rotor of the high-pressure stage of the second engine is spun up for a predetermined duration and to a speed that is substantially constant and less than the nominal value during the starting cycle for the first engine. Once the starting cycle for the first engine is complete, the second engine is made by the pilots of the aircraft to follow an automatic starting procedure. The starting cycle for the second engine comprises just three phases.

System and method for starting the engines of a twin-engine aircraft

A system comprising a discharge valve that allows some of the fluid generated by a fluid generating source and intended for a drive torque generating member for a rotary element of a mechanical device to be removed so as to limit the corresponding rotational speed, this being done for a length of time that allows a thermal gradient to be reduced sufficiently that a phenomenon of deformation of said rotary element can be prevented.

System and method for spinning up a rotary element of a mechanical device, particularly a turbomachine

An aeroplane comprising a fuselage elongated in a longitudinal direction of the aeroplane is provided. The aeroplane includes a wing attached to the fuselage in a midsection of said fuselage in the longitudinal direction, such that part of the fuselage extends forward of the wing toward a front extremity of the fuselage, and part of the fuselage extends from the rear of the wing toward a rear extremity of the fuselage. A rear fuselage section includes at least one engine attached to the fuselage and located to the rear of the wing. The one or more engines attached to the fuselage are attached in a rear position such that only parts of the aeroplane located in a projection space of the one or more engines attached to the fuselage and the rear fuselage does not include any aerodynamic surfaces intended to assure stability and/or aerodynamic control of the aeroplane.

Airplane having a rear propulsion system

An aircraft has at least two jet-propulsion engines mounted laterally on the fuselage in a symmetrical design in the aft part of the fuselage. Each jet engine is mounted on the fuselage some distance from the vertical plane of symmetry of the aircraft, so that the jet engine, in a so-called half-buried configuration, is partly inside an envelope surface of a theoretical fuselage. The half-buried, jet engines are mounted on a main boom fitted on the vertical plane of symmetry of the aircraft, inside the fuselage in back, of a forward main frame. The tail sections are mounted on the main boom and the boom is integral with structures for transmitting forces into the forward part of the fuselage. The structure is advantageously made of fiber-reinforced composite materials.

Airplane with rear engines

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Toulouse, France

Alexis Manneville