Patent ID: 8651414
Filing Date: 2014-02-18
Classification: B64C,B64D,Y02T

Abstract:
1. An airplane comprising: a fuselage including at least one wing attached to the fuselage between a front end and a rear end of the fuselage, the fuselage having a substantially cylindrical central part and a tapered rear part joined to the central part at a connecting section, onto which a vertical tail assembly is attached and onto which a rear propulsive assembly is attached substantially at a vertical symmetry plane of the fuselage, wherein, in the tapered rear part: a maximum height of each section of the fuselage decreases toward a rear of the airplane so that the rear end of the fuselage forms a trailing edge with a width L; a maximum width of each section of the fuselage increases continuously, the maximum width being locally constant or increasing toward the rear of the airplane, from a maximum width of the connection section up to the width L, the width L being greater than the maximum width of the connecting section; a rear engine of the rear propulsive assembly is situated in a rear part of the fuselage so that a lower part of the rear engine, at a maximum diameter of the rear engine, is partially inside the fuselage and an upper part of the rear engine is on top of the fuselage according to a semi-buried configuration; and the rear propulsive assembly includes a nacelle having shapes which join with the rear part of the fuselage on each side of the nacelle.