AIRCRAFT ENGINE

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17331020

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A gas turbine engine for an aircraft includes a fan system having a reverse travelling wave first flap mode, Fan RTW, and including a fan located upstream of the engine core; a fan shaft; and a front engine structure arranged to support the fan shaft and having a front engine structure nodding mode comprising a pair of modes at similar, but not equal, natural frequencies in orthogonal directions; and a gearbox. An LP rotor system including the fan system and a gearbox output shaft arranged to drive the fan shaft has a first reverse whirl rotor dynamic mode, Rotor RW, and a first forward whirl rotor dynamic mode, 1FW. The engine has a maximum take-off speed, MTO. A backward whirl frequency margin of:

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ROLLS-ROYCE PLC65 BUCKINGHAM GATE LONDON SW1E 6AT

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
HUGHES, Geoffrey Bristol, GB 6 2
SILVESTER, Matthew Derby, GB 5 0

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