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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2004
John Lewis Baughman, Cincinnati, OH (US);
James Edward Johnson, Hamilton, OH (US);
John Lewis Baughman, Cincinnati, OH (US);
James Edward Johnson, Hamilton, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
An aft FLADE gas turbine engine including a fan section drivenly connected to a low pressure turbine section followed by an aft FLADE turbine having at least one row of aft FLADE fan blades radially extending across a FLADE duct circumscribing the aft FLADE turbine, and at least one thrust vectoring nozzle in pressurized fluid flow receiving communication with the FLADE duct. One embodiment of the engine includes spaced apart right and left hand FLADE exhaust nozzles in pressurized fluid flow receiving communication with the FLADE duct and offset from a main engine exhaust nozzle located downstream of the aft FLADE turbine. Right and left hand valves disposed in right and left hand ducts extending between a FLADE airflow manifold in pressurized fluid flow receiving communication with the FLADE duct may be used to vector thrust. The right and left hand FLADE exhaust nozzle may be fixed or thrust vectoring nozzles.