公开(公告)号：US20170190409A1

公开(公告)日：2017-07-06

申请号：US14984758

申请日：2015-12-30

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Brandon Wayne Miller ,  Ian Francis Prentice ,  Trevor Wayne Goerig ,  Trevor Howard Wood ,  Kishore Ramakrishnan ,  Andrew Breeze-Stringfellow

IPC: B64C1/40 ,  B64D27/12

CPC classification number: B64C1/40 ,  B64C11/00 ,  B64D27/12 ,  B64D27/14 ,  B64D2027/005 ,  Y02T50/66

Abstract: An aircraft and method of operating the aircraft are provided. The aircraft includes a fuselage including a nose, a tail, and a hollow, elongate body extending therebetween, a wing extending laterally away from the fuselage, the wing including a leading edge in a direction of motion of the aircraft during normal flight and a trailing edge on an opposing edge of the wing, and an engine configured to drive a bladed rotatable member, the engine coupled to at least one of the wing and the fuselage. The aircraft further includes at least one of a forward chine member and an aft chine member extending from the fuselage at a point forward of the engine aftward to a point aft of the bladed rotatable member.