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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2003
Darrell Glenn Senile, Oxford, OH (US);
Christina Marie Burke, Hamilton, OH (US);
Bernard J. Renggli, Cincinnati, OH (US);
John Sigfrid Amneus, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Darrell Glenn Senile, Oxford, OH (US);
Christina Marie Burke, Hamilton, OH (US);
Bernard J. Renggli, Cincinnati, OH (US);
John Sigfrid Amneus, Cincinnati, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method facilitates assembling a flap system for a gas turbine engine exhaust nozzle including at least one backbone assembly. The method comprises providing a basesheet including a pair of circumferentially-spaced sides coupled together by an upstream side and a downstream side, forming at least one relief cut in the basesheet that extends at least partially across the basesheet from at least one of the circumferentially-spaced sides, and coupling the basesheet to the backbone assembly.