Rtx Corporation

Po-Ching Yeh

Thomas J Robertson, Jr

Darin S Lussier

Jason Elliott

George Alan Salisbury

Xuetao Li

Royce E Tatton

A blade includes an airfoil section and a root section that extends in a chord-wise direction between leading and trailing root faces and in a radial direction that is perpendicular to the chord-wise direction from an inner root face to the second end of the airfoil section. The root section defines a dovetail cross-section that is perpendicular to the chord-wise direction. The airfoil section and the root section are comprised of a composite material architecture that includes inter-section fiber plies that each extend from the leading to the trailing edge and from the airfoil section into the root section. Wedges extend in the root section and are interleaved with the inter-section fiber plies. Each of the wedges tapers in the chord-wise direction and the radial direction.

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Woodbridge, CT, United States of America

Po-Ching Yeh