Full-Scale Turbofan Demonstration of a Deployable Engine Air-Brake for Drag Management Applications

This paper presents the design and full-scale ground-test demonstration of an engine airbrake (EAB) nozzle that uses a deployable swirl vane mechanism to switch the operation of a turbofan's exhaust stream from thrust generation to drag generation during the approach and/or descent phase of fli...

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Main Authors: Pfeiffer, Gordon (Author), Davis, Rory (Author), Hartley, Thomas (Author), Shah, Parthiv N. (Contributor), Spakovszky, Zoltan S (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: ASME International, 2018-07-23T17:18:40Z.
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