Patent ID: 8844262
Filing Date: 2014-09-30
Classification: B64D,F02C,F02K

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising: a gas turbine engine having an exhaust system, the exhaust system including a first outlet operable to flow a stream that includes a fan bypass flow from a gas turbine engine and an opposing pair of outlets disposed on opposite sides of the first outlet and operable to flow a working fluid withdrawn from the fan bypass flow, the first outlet having a movable first outlet structure operable to alter a portion of the stream in a first outlet structure direction, the opposing pair of outlets fed from a bifurcated flow of the working fluid withdrawn from the fan bypass flow having opposing movable second outlet structures operable to alter a portion of the working fluid in a second outlet structure direction; and wherein the stream from the first outlet is combined with the working fluid from the opposing pair of outlets during operation of the gas turbine engine.