A system and method for optimizing performance of an aircraft or boat through detection and trending of engine deterioration based on the performance of the vehicle's gas turbine. The system and method detects declines in engine power due to either of in-transit events or over the extended lifetime of the engine, the declines being due to routine engine part aging or an event. As engine power gradually or suddenly deteriorates, the system and method lowers a maximum operating line which defines the safe limits for peak engine power consumption during flight. For in-transit events, the system and method detects when actual power consumption is approaching the current maximum operating line. The controller may then automate changes to operations of entirely separate aircraft systems, such as rebalancing electrical energy consumption by various non-engine elements of the aircraft.

An air direction arrangement for an aircraft. The air direction arrangement contains an inlet opening and an inlet channel connected thereto and which is at least partially surrounded by an outer wall. The inlet channel is configured to guide air to an engine of the aircraft. The outer wall contains at least one outlet channel and at least one outlet element. The outlet element is configured to selectively release or close the outlet channel for an air flow from the inlet channel into the environment of the aircraft. The air direction arrangement contains a heat exchanger in the outlet channel to discharge thermal energy to the air flow which is flowing from the inlet channel into the environment of the aircraft.

This instant invention provides an airplane design mainly to eject rearward the high-speed exhaust gas from the engine of the airplane to flow through the upper surface of the wing, such that the forward propulsion forcing can be obtained via rearward ejecting the high-speed exhaust gas to push the air rearward, and also larger uplift forcing induced by a larger velocity difference vertically across the wing can be obtained to ascend the airplane at the same time. This velocity difference is generated because the air over the wing is accelerated by the ejected high-speed exhaust gas, but the air below the wing stays the same velocity, such that a bigger velocity difference is directly produced vertically across the wing, and thus more uplift forcing can be provided to ascend the airplane.

A ramjet including: a combustion area having an air inlet and an exhaust outlet; and a fuel cell in fluid communication with the air inlet and a fuel supply of the ramjet, wherein the fuel cell is in thermal communication with the combustion area.

An aircraft engine nacelle for coupling to a wing of an aircraft is disclosed having a fore end, and an aft end that is immoveable relative to the fore end. The aft end includes a major axis Mj and a minor axis Mi, and the nacelle is configured such the minor axis Mi is closer to vertical V than the major axis Mj when the nacelle is coupled to the wing and the aircraft is stationary on the ground. An aircraft system and an aircraft are disclosed each including the aircraft engine nacelle.

An aircraft including a fuselage, a lateral support wing (1) and a propulsion assembly (100) mounted under the wing. The wing includes at least two structural spars (11ba, 11bf) extending from the fuselage toward the tip of the wing, one of these (11ba) being upstream and the other (11bf) downstream. The propulsion assembly includes a gas generator (106) and at least two offset fans (102, 104) arranged on either side of the axis of the gas generator. The offset fans (102, 104) are attached directly to one of the spars (11ba, 11bf) and the gas generator (106) is attached directly to the two spars. The leading edge of the wing forms a given sweep of angle (α) with the axis of the fuselage. The two offset fans (102, 104) are axially offset from one another.

An air intake for a nacelle of an aircraft propulsion assembly includes an upstream section that defines an air intake flow path, a central section surrounding a fan of an engine, and a downstream section surrounding a combustion chamber of the engine. The air intake includes a disassembly mechanism which has a panel able to move between a flush closed position in which the panel provides aerodynamic continuity of the air intake in the air intake flow path, and an open maintenance position in which the panel is radially and outwardly retracted in relation to its flush closed position in order to free up a space which allows removal of a blade of the fan at its distal end.

Electrical power generation in turbine engines in provided by a permanent magnet that emits a first magnetic field and is disposed on a first rotor assembly of a turbine engine; an armature winding connected to a second rotor assembly of the turbine engine such that the armature winding is positioned within the first magnetic field; a resonant emitter configured to receive an electrical power input from the armature winding to generate a second magnetic field of at least a predefined frequency when the first rotor assembly rotates relative to the second rotor assembly; and a resonant receiver disposed on an enclosure of the turbine engine, positioned to receive the second magnetic field and convert the second magnetic field into an electrical power output.

An air intake includes a substantially cylindrical inner wall, a substantially cylindrical outer wall, a front lip connecting the inner wall and the outer wall, a front mounting flange, and a support structure. The front mounting flange is configured to cooperate with a rear flange of a wall of an aircraft engine. The support structure is configured to be secured to the wall of the aircraft engine at a location longitudinally downstream of the mounting flange. The outer wall includes a downstream end configured to be positioned in a junction area flush with a front end of a fan external cowl. A portion of the outer wall being configured to bear at least against the support structure. The support structure is configured to be secured to the wall of the aircraft engine so that a load path passes directly from the outer wall towards the fan casing.

A handling assembly of a propulsion assembly includes a nacelle and an aircraft turbojet engine. The handling assembly also includes a handling envelope covering at least half of the circumference of an outer wall of an air inlet of the nacelle, when the propulsion assembly is mounted on said handling assembly, and at least two interfaces for attaching slings, the slings being connected to a hoisting system which is external to said handling assembly. A method for handling a propulsion assembly is also disclosed.