An aircraft 100 and method of operating the aircraft 100 are provided. The aircraft 100 includes a fuselage 102 including a nose 104, a tail 106, and a hollow, elongate body 108 extending therebetween, a wing 110 extending laterally away from the fuselage 102, the wing 110 including a leading edge 114 in a direction 116 of motion of the aircraft 100 during normal flight and a trailing edge 118 on an opposing edge of the wing 110, and an engine 120 configured to drive a bladed rotatable member 122, the engine 120 coupled to at least one of the wing 110 and the fuselage 102. The aircraft 100 further includes at least one of a forward chine member 123 and an aft chine member 132 extending from the fuselage 102 at a point 124 forward of the engine 120 aftward to a point 128 aft of the bladed rotatable member 122.
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPEN ROTOR ENGINE FUSELAGE PROTECTION
VERFAHREN UND SYSTEM ZUM SCHUTZ EINES OFFENEN ROTORMOTORRUMPFES
PROCÉDÉ ET SYSTÈME DE PROTECTION DE FUSELAGE D'UN MOTEUR À ROTOR OUVERT
2017-07-05
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
Method and system for open rotor engine fuselage protection
European Patent Office | 2017
|METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPEN ROTOR ENGINE FUSELAGE PROTECTION
European Patent Office | 2017
|METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPEN ROTOR ENGINE FUSELAGE PROTECTION
European Patent Office | 2017
|METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPEN ROTOR ENGINE FUSELAGE PROTECTION
European Patent Office | 2017
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