General Electric Company

Ge Aviation Systems Limited

Gerhard Walter Moeller

Sridhar Adibhatla

Aaron James Gannon

Dashiell Matthews Kolbe

Steven Edward Nolte

Timothy Donal Paul Burns

John William Hanify

Grant Alan Ingram

Christopher Timothy Gallagher

Darrin Walter Wargacki

A method for reducing a turbine clearance gap between a plurality of rotor blades of a turbine engine and a shroud of the turbine engine is provided. The method includes determining that an airplane is in a first flight condition, and adjusting the turbine clearance gap to a first clearance gap distance associated with the first flight condition. The method also includes determining a demand for a second flight condition, and adjusting an engine responsiveness to a first engine responsiveness for a first predetermined change in a power parameter of the engine. The method further includes reducing the engine responsiveness from the first engine responsiveness level to a second engine responsiveness level for a second predetermined change in the power parameter of the engine, and closing a clearance control valve associated with the shroud during the second predetermined change in the power parameter of the engine.

Method, system, and apparatus for reducing a turbine clearance

Methods of illustrating one or more derated takeoffs of an aircraft on a runway where such illustrations are on a flight display in a cockpit of the aircraft and are based on various information and may allow pilots to make more accurate decisions related to derated takeoffs and full thrust takeoffs of the aircraft.

Methods for derated thrust visualization

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Gerhard Walter Moeller