Patent ID: 7240877
Filing Date: 2007-07-10
Classification: B64D

Abstract:
1. A multi-engined aircraft of which one of the engines is positioned at the tail of the fuselage, which comprises the rear tail units, and in the vertical longitudinal plane of symmetry of said fuselage, wherein said tail engine is disposed in front of said rear tail units, above the upper part of the tail of the fuselage, and wherein said tail engine is mounted, in a detachable manner, on a rigid supporting structure attached to that of said fuselage and wherein there is formed, in the tail of said fuselage and plumb with said engine supported by said structure, a vertical lowering shaft having an upper opening in the upper part of the tail of the fuselage and a lower opening in the lower part of the tail of the fuselage, the vertical lowering shaft for the passage of said engine between, on the one hand, a high position corresponding to the operational position of said engine and, on the other hand, following the separation of said engine from the supporting structure and its displacement through said lowering shaft, a low position in which said engine has come out of said fuselage and is under said tail.