Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Tiltrotor propulsion system for an aircraft
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Application No.: US15259596Application Date: 2016-09-08
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Publication No.: US10252797B2Publication Date: 2019-04-09
- Inventor: Randy M. Vondrell , Matthew Ryan Polakowski , Kurt David Murrow , Glenn Crabtree , Darek Tomasz Zatorski
- Applicant: General Electric Company
- Applicant Address: US NY Schenectady
- Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Schenectady
- Agency: General Electric Company
- Agent William Scott Andes
- Main IPC: B64C29/00
- IPC: B64C29/00 ; B64C3/32 ; B64C11/28 ; B64C27/08 ; B64D27/24 ; B64C11/00 ; B64C11/46 ; B64D27/02

Abstract:
An aircraft includes a fuselage, a forward wing assembly, and aft wing assembly, and a propulsion system. The propulsion system includes a first primary thrust propulsor and a first secondary thrust propulsor, the first primary thrust propulsor being different than the first secondary thrust propulsor. Both the first primary thrust propulsor and the first secondary thrust propulsor are mounted to the same one of: a starboard side of the aft wing assembly, a port side of the aft wing assembly, a starboard side of the forward wing assembly, or a port side of the forward wing assembly.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180065741A1 TILTROTOR PROPULSION SYSTEM FOR AN AIRCRAFT Public/Granted day:2018-03-08
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