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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2018
Applicant:
United Technologies Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Inventors:
Neil Terwilliger, Meriden, CT (US);
Stuart S. Ochs, Coventry, CT (US);
Assignee:
RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION, Farmington, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 21/08 (2006.01); B64C 1/16 (2006.01); B64C 21/06 (2006.01); B64D 27/20 (2006.01); B64D 33/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 21/08 (2013.01); B64C 1/16 (2013.01); B64C 21/06 (2013.01); B64D 27/20 (2013.01); B64D 33/02 (2013.01); B64C 2230/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
An aircraft is provided and includes fuselage having a nose, a main section aft of the nose and a tail aft of the main section, an engine nacelle partially embedded in the tail and including a boundary layer ingestion (BLI) propulsor with an inlet directly adjacent to the fuselage and a nozzle element disposed upstream from the inlet and configured to accelerate boundary flows flowing toward the interior side of the engine nacelle.