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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2025
General Electric Company, Evendale, OH (US);
Sara Elizabeth Carle, Columbus, OH (US);
Daniel L. Tweedt, West Chester, OH (US);
Syed Arif Khalid, West Chester, OH (US);
Andrew Breeze-Stringfellow, Montgomery, OH (US);
William Bowden, Cleves, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Evendale, OH (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure is generally related to aircraft having one or more unducted fan propulsors at locations within specific regions relative to an airfoil, such as a wing or horizontal stabilizer. More specifically, the specific regions are located where there is a relatively higher pressure air flow beneath the wings or above a horizontal stabilizer. That higher pressure air flow can be utilized to provide increased thrust from the unducted fan propulsor. The unducted fan propulsors include an engine correlation parameter that is greater than 0.17 and less than 0.83, wherein the engine correlation parameter equals D/N/GR, D is the maximum outer diameter of the rotating blades, N is a stage count of a low-pressure turbine of the unducted fan propulsor, and GR is a gear ratio of a gearbox of the unducted fan propulsor operably coupling the low pressure turbine and the rotating blades.