Airbus Helicopters

Philippe Pinto

Guillaume Legras

Franck Morente

Christophe Albertini

Kevin Felmy

An aircraft provided with at least one exhaust duct for discharging gases from an engine. The exhaust duct is partly accommodated in an internal housing of the aircraft, the housing being separated from an external environment situated outside the aircraft by at least one cowl that is able to move in relation to a load-bearing structure of the aircraft. The exhaust duct comprises an exhaust segment passing through a passage of the cowl without touching the cowl. A space separates the exhaust segment from the cowl. The aircraft comprises at least one stabilization system coupled to the exhaust duct, the stabilization system comprising a stiffening ring secured to the exhaust duct and at least one fastening connecting the exhaust duct to the cowl.

Aircraft provided with an exhaust duct coupled to a stabilization system

An exhaust duct configured to be arranged around an exhaust nozzle of an engine, the exhaust duct having a plurality of sections. The sections are circular between an inlet section and an outlet section, with the exception of the sections of a deformed segment, each section of the deformed segment extending from a bottom sector to a top sector, the bottom sector having a non-circular shape so that at least a volume of liquid that is not able to reach, by force of gravity, the inlet section and the outlet section, is less than a volume threshold when the pitch and roll angles respectively lie within predetermined pitch and roll angle ranges.

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Philippe Pinto