An aircraft includes an airframe and a distributed propulsion system including a plurality of propulsion assemblies coupled to the airframe. Each of the propulsion assemblies includes a nacelle, an engine disposed within the nacelle, a proprotor coupled to the engine and a thrust vectoring system. Each thrust vectoring system includes a pivoting plate, a rotary actuator operable to rotate the pivoting plate about a propulsion assembly centerline axis and a linear actuator operable to pivot the pivoting plate about a pivot axis that is normal to the propulsion assembly centerline axis. The engine is mounted on the pivoting plate such that operation of the pivoting plate enables resolution of a thrust vector within a thrust vector cone.
Aircraft with thrust vectoring propulsion assemblies
2019-10-29
Patent
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
THRUST VECTORING EXHAUST NOZZLE FOR AIRCRAFT PROPULSION SYSTEM
Europäisches Patentamt | 2023
|Propulsion System Technologies for Thrust Vectoring
NTIS | 1986
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