General Electric Company

Ravish Karve

Kishore Ramakrishnan

Sara Elizabeth Carle

Trevor Howard Wood

A turbofan engine defining a circumferential direction is provided. The turbofan engine includes: a turbomachine, the turbomachine defining a pylon attachment location along the circumferential direction; an unducted rotor assembly drivingly coupled to the turbomachine, the unducted rotor assembly including a plurality of unducted rotor blades; and a plurality of outlet guide vanes positioned downstream of the plurality of unducted rotor blades, the plurality of outlet guide vanes including Nnumber of outlet guide vanes, the plurality of outlet guide vanes including a first outlet guide vane and a second outlet guide vane adjacent the first outlet guide vane, the first and second outlet guide vanes defining a gap spacing greater than 360 degrees divided by N, and the pylon attachment location positioned outside of between the first and second outlet guide vanes along the circumferential direction.

Outlet guide vane assembly for a turbofan engine

A turbofan engine defining a circumferential direction is provided. The turbofan engine includes a turbomachine; an unducted rotor assembly drivingly coupled to the turbomachine, the unducted rotor assembly including a plurality of unducted rotor blades; and a plurality of outlet guide vanes positioned downstream of the plurality of unducted rotor blades, the plurality of outlet guide vanes each defining a span, the spans of the plurality of outlet guide vanes being nonuniform along the circumferential direction.

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Ravish Karve