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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2015
Applicant:
Rolls-royce Plc, London, GB;
Inventors:
Rory D Stieger, Derby, GB;
Lorenzo Raffaelli, Sheffield, GB;
Assignee:
ROLLS-ROYCE plc, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64D 13/08 (2006.01); B64D 13/06 (2006.01); B64C 21/06 (2006.01); B64D 33/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64D 13/08 (2013.01); B64C 21/06 (2013.01); B64D 13/06 (2013.01); B64D 2013/0603 (2013.01); B64D 2013/0611 (2013.01); B64D 2013/0622 (2013.01); B64D 2033/0213 (2013.01); Y02T 50/166 (2013.01); Y02T 50/56 (2013.01);
Abstract
An air duct arrangement () for an aircraft (). The arrangement () comprises an environmental control system (ECS) (). The ECS () comprises an air inlet () arranged to ingest a low velocity portion of a boundary layer flow adjacent the aircraft fuselage (), and to deliver a flow of air to an environmental control system air intake (). The arrangement () further comprises an ejector () arranged to receive an ECS exhaust (), and boundary layer air from an aft region of the aircraft (), and to exhaust air to the ambient airstream at an aft portion of the aircraft ().