General Electric Company

Other

David Baker Riddle

Syed Arif Khalid

Daniel Lawrence Tweedt

Richard David Cedar

Adam Wayne Clark

Joanne Dolgow

Apparatuses and systems are provided herein for unducted propulsion systems. The system includes an aft housing for low drag for high subsonic sustained flight. A plurality of blades are affixed to the aft housing, wherein the housing defines a flowpath curve extending from the axial extent of the aft blade root to the aft end of the aft housing. The flowpath curve is described by an axial direction parallel to an axis of rotation and a radius from the axis of rotation. The flowpath curve includes first point having a first radius where the radius reaches a maximum aft of the aft blade root and a second point forward of the first point having a second radius where the radius stops decreasing. The ratio of the first radius to the second radius is greater than or equal to 1.081.

Unducted propulsion system

Aircraft gas turbine engine spinner includes conical forward spinner section extending aftwardly from spinner tip to a curved aft spinner section circumscribed about centerline axis, a spinner aspect ratio greater than about 1.8, and wherein spinner aspect ratio is an axial distance between spinner tip and spinner end divided by radial distance from axis to spinner end. Aspect ratio may be in a range of about 2.0-2.2 or about 2.2-2.8. Aft spinner section may be substantially tangential to platform leading edges of platforms of fan blades. Aft spinner section may have cambered or an elliptical axially curved cross-section. Spinner axial cross-section may have longer spinner axial distance compared to baseline axial distance of baseline cross-section and spinner aspect ratio greater than baseline aspect ratio of baseline cross-section.

Crosswind performance aircraft engine spinner

Two separate cameras are mounted together and synchronized in focus and shutter actuation to provide simultaneous exposures on separate film or other image recording media. The primary camera includes a system view finder which permits observation of the field of view along the optical axis of the primary camera. A second camera, which has its optical axis oriented parallel to the primary camera axis, has its field of view corrected for parallax distortion by a prism which is selectively attachable to the lens of the second camera. The second camera provides an instant positive print which serves as a proof for the photograph taken by the primary camera. Identical identification numbers are printed on both of the exposures by means of respective LED arrays actuated along with the shutters to print a number representing the count in an electronic counter. The number in the electronic counter is incremented automatically upon each shutter actuation.

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