Airbus Helicopters

Patrick Fort

Guillaume Legras

Christophe Albertini

Pascal Alliot

An aircraft provided with at least one electric machine accommodated in a compartment separated from an outside environment by a cowling, the aircraft comprising a ventilation system for conveying air from the outside environment to the electric machine. The ventilation system comprises a duct connected to the electric machine and extending up to a free section, the free section being situated in the outside environment, the duct passing through a passage in the cowling, the duct extending partially into the compartment and partially into the outside environment, a free space surrounding the duct in the passage and separating the duct from the cowling, the ventilation system comprising a scoop that faces the free section without closing it off according to a vertical axis when the aircraft is on horizontal ground.

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Marseilles, France

Patrick Fort