Patent ID: 8245494

Claim:
A gas turbine engine, comprising: an inlet duct that receives an intake air; a combustor having an axially extending aft end exhaust nozzle, the combustor receives the intake air and discharges combustion gas along an axis of the combustor; an eductor having an axially extending housing that circumscribes the axially extending aft end exhaust nozzle to define an axially extending annular flow path there between, a sideward eductor inlet that intakes generally normal to the combustor axis and an aft end eductor outlet that exhausts an air flow from the sideward eductor inlet; and an eductor distribution shield mounted in the axially extending annular flow path between the eductor inlet and the axially extending aft end exhaust nozzle, the eductor distribution shield having a deflection surface in the shape of a ring segment that deflects the air flow from the eductor inlet around the combustor and discharges at the eductor outlet.