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 air-brake (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 fl...

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Main Authors: Pfeiffer, Gordon, Davis, Rory, Hartley, Thomas, Shah, Parthiv N., Spakovszky, Zoltan S
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Format: Article
Published: ASME International 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116098
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2167-9860

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