United Technologies Corporation

Harris D Weingold

Glen E Potter

Robert J Neubert

Roy F Behlke

Walter B Harvey

John G Andy

An airfoil for a compression section 12 of a rotary machine 10 is disclosed. Various construction details are developed to increase the efficiency of the compression section 12. In one detailed embodiment, the airfoil has a spanwise axis 52 or stacking line which extends in a generally radial direction. The stacking line or spanwise axis 52 is straight over the mid-section of the airfoil and is angled circumferentially toward the radial direction in the end wall regions 58, 66 of the airfoil.

Bowed airfoil for the compression section of a rotary machine

A swept leading edge blade (10) rotates in a stream of air (26) and experiences supersonic relative air velocities over at least a portion of the blade surface. The maximum camber points (28, 40) of adjacent blade segments (20, 18) are located to prevent intensification of the compression wave generated by each segment (20, 18).

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West Hartford, CT, United States of America

Harris D Weingold