Abstract: A method and apparatus for supplying cooling air on vehicles such as high speed aircraft includes diverting high pressure air from the compressor section of a gas turbine engine, cooling this air in a heat exchanger, compressing the air and subsequently cooling the air in a second heat exchanger to provide cooled, high pressure air. One embodiment additionally provides cooled air at relatively medium pressure and relatively low pressure, while the alternate embodiment additionally provides cooled air at relatively low pressure.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for supplying cooling air on vehicles such as high speed aircraft includes diverting high pressure air from the compressor section of a gas turbine engine, cooling this air in a heat exchanger, compressing the air and subsequently cooling the air in a second heat exchanger to provide cooled, high pressure air. One embodiment additionally provides cooled air at relatively medium pressure and relatively low pressure, while the alternate embodiment additionally provides cooled air at relatively low pressure.

Abstract: A method for providing both starting power and thermal management requirements of a vehicle incorporating a gas turbine engine by using the same unit to alternately provide both starting power and cooling air.

Abstract: An axisymmetric thrust vectoring exhaust nozzle includes a plurality of divergent flaps (30) each supported at the upstream end by a universal joint (32) and at the downstream end by a load link (34) connected to a unison ring (36) positioned by actuators (45).

Abstract: An engine is shown having means for providing cooling fluid to turbine blades on a disk while providing sealing means between the blade roots and cooperating disk slots and providing means for retaining the turbine blades on their disk. The device comprises a full ring coverplate which engages a small coverplate fixed to each blade. A small coverplate is fixed, such as by bonding, to the forward end of the root section of each blade and contoured so that it extends over the edges of the root and bears against the forward side of the disk when the blade root has been inserted in a blade slot. The blades are held in the disk by the full ring coverplate which engages all of the small coverplates at a midpoint between the inner and outer ends of the root. The position of the full ring coverplate can be adjusted to provide and vary a biasing force against the small coverplates to maintain a force keeping the small coverplates against the disk.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to HIF-2? inhibitors and methods of making and using them for treating cancer. Certain compounds were potent in HIF-2? scintillation proximity assay, luciferase assay, and VEGF ELISA assay, and led to tumor size reduction and regression in 786-O xenograft bearing mice in vivo.