An aircraft 10 includes a boundary layer ingestion fan 100 defining a centerline 116 and including a plurality of fan blades 120 rotatable about the centerline 116. The aircraft 10 also includes a fuselage 20 extending between a forward end 14 and an aft end 16 along a longitudinal direction (L), the boundary layer ingestion fan 100 positioned within the fuselage 20 at the aft end 16 of the fuselage 20, the fuselage 20 defining an inlet 102 upstream of the boundary layer ingestion fan 100 extending at least about 180 degrees around the centerline 116 of the boundary layer ingestion fan 100, the fuselage 20 further defining an exhaust 104 downstream of the boundary layer ingestion fan 100.
AIRCRAFT HAVING AN AFT ENGINE
LUFTFAHRZEUG MIT EINEM HECKMOTOR
AÉRONEF ÉQUIPÉ D'UN MOTEUR ARRIÈRE
2019-10-02
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
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