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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2015
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Brandon Wayne Miller, Middletown, OH (US);
Ian Francis Prentice, Cincinatti, OH (US);
Trevor Wayne Goerig, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Trevor Howard Wood, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Kishore Ramakrishnan, Rexford, NY (US);
Andrew Breeze-Stringfellow, Montgomery, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
An aircraft and method of operating the aircraft are provided. The aircraft includes a fuselage including a nose, a tail, and a hollow, elongate body extending therebetween, a wing extending laterally away from the fuselage, the wing including a leading edge in a direction of motion of the aircraft during normal flight and a trailing edge on an opposing edge of the wing, and an engine configured to drive a bladed rotatable member, the engine coupled to at least one of the wing and the fuselage. The aircraft further includes at least one of a forward chine member and an aft chine member extending from the fuselage at a point forward of the engine aftward to a point aft of the bladed rotatable member.