General Electric Company

Nelson Dirk Gibbens

Thomas Tracy Wallace

William Andrew Bailey

Robert Eugene Kraft

Rolf R Hetico

Cornelius Harm Dykhuizen

William Charles Groll

James Edward Stoker

Martin Joseph Pierce

Rolf Robert Hetico

Connelius H Dykhuizen

A bleed duct is configured for bleeding fan air from the fan bypass duct in a turbofan aircraft engine. The bleed duct includes a tubular conduit having an inlet and outlet at opposite ends. The conduit is configured in flow area for recovering pressure from speeding fan air bled therethrough. A shroud extends forwardly from the duct inlet for suppressing dynamic pressure oscillations inside the conduit without degrading the pressure recovery.

Shrouded turbofan bleed duct

A method enables a thrust link including a clevis to be coupled to a mounting lug including a spherical bearing. The method comprises positioning the spherical bearing within the thrust link clevis, and coupling the thrust link to the mounting lug by inserting a fastener through the clevis such that the fastener extends from one side of the clevis through the spherical bearing to the other side of the clevis, and such that fuse element included with at least one of the fastener and the clevis is positioned within a structural load path defined between the clevis and the thrust link, wherein the fuse element is configured to fail when subjected to a predetermined load.

Methods and apparatus for mounting a gas turbine engine

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Mason, OH, United States of America

Nelson Dirk Gibbens