A gas turbine engine for an aircraft, includes: an engine core having a turbine, a compressor, and a core shaft connecting the turbine to the compressor; a fan assembly located upstream of the engine core; and a gearbox receiving an input from the core shaft and outputs drive to the fan assembly so as to drive the fan assembly at a lower rotational speed than the core shaft, wherein the fan assembly has fan blades mounted around a hub, the fan blades having blade tips defining an outer diameter of the fan assembly of from around 220 cm to around 400 cm, the hub having slots located around a rim of the hub, each slot receiving a root of a corresponding fan blade, wherein a ratio of a mass of the hub to a total mass of the fan blades is within the range of around 0.45 to around 0.7.


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    Title :

    GEARED TURBOFAN ENGINE


    Contributors:
    BREEN CLIVE (author)

    Publication date :

    2020-06-04


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    F04D Strömungsarbeitsmaschinen , NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS / B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge / F02C Gasturbinenanlagen , GAS-TURBINE PLANTS / F03D Windkraftmaschinen , WIND MOTORS



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