Abstract: An aircraft propulsion unit including a turbojet and a heat exchanger located above the turbojet and drawing a cooling air stream and a hot air stream in the turbojet. Wherein the cooling air intake and hot air intake surfaces in the housing are directed forward of the turbojet and have normal lines inclined relative to the axis of the turbojet. The embodiment also concerns an aircraft equipped with at least one such propulsion unit.

Abstract: A damage-tolerance attachment system for an aircraft engine includes first and second attachment devices attaching the aircraft engine to a pylon fixedly attached to the aircraft, and a third backup attachment device including a first portion attached to the pylon and a second portion attached to the engine, the first and second portions connected together loosely so as not to disrupt an isostasy of the first and second attachment devices.

Abstract: Sail wing aircraft which includes a wing (6) and at least one propulsion engine (8). It includes an upper beam (22) which is firmly fixed at its front end to a first frame (12) located on an air inlet (14) of the propulsion engine and which is in addition firmly fixed at its median part to a second frame (16) located to the rear of the first frame. The sail wing aircraft includes in addition a pylon (26) for attachment of the engine onto the fuselage, where the engine is fixed to the pylon (26).

Abstract: An engine unit for an aircraft including a turboprop engine and its device for mounting on to a wing surface. The device includes a rigid structure and a mechanism for fastening the turboprop engine on to this structure. The fastening mechanism includes six mutually independent hydraulic systems, each one exclusively dedicated to the transfer, to the rigid structure, of forces exerted respectively according to one of the six degrees of freedom of movement. Each hydraulic system includes at least one hydraulic jack with a piston attached to one of the two elements, i.e. either the turboprop engine or the rigid structure, together with a cylinder housing the piston and attached to the other of the two elements.

Abstract: A system for attaching an engine to the structure of an aircraft, such as a sail wing aircraft is disclosed. The system includes an upper beam which is firmly fixed at its front end to a first frame mounted on the aircraft structure, and firmly fixed at its median part to a second frame located to the rear of the first frame. The engine is hooked beneath the upper beam. The system is orientated in relation to a longitudinal axis X, a transverse axis Y and a vertical axis Z. Two front engine attachment points are arranged symmetrically on either side of the vertical median plane of the engine. The front attachment points include a shaft which is inclined relative to the Y-direction and to the Z-direction so that they bear the forces along the longitudinal direction and forces which are inclined relative to the Z-direction and Y-direction.

Abstract: A propulsion system for an aircraft includes a heat exchange unit through which a hot air stream and a cooling air stream flow. The heat exchange unit includes a hot air inlet pipe situated on a rear face of the heat exchange unit, to carry the hot air stream into the heat exchange unit, and a cooling air discharge pipe situated on the rear face of the heat exchange unit to expel the cooling air stream from the heat exchange unit, the hot air inlet pipe and the cooling air discharge pipe being concentric with each other. The hot air stream flows from the rear face forward to a front of the heat exchange unit, then from the front of the heat exchange unit, to a rear of the heat exchange unit, so as to be expelled via the rear face of the heat exchange unit.

Abstract: A nacelle cowling for a turbojet, characterized in that it is provided with a fixed part and a mobile part, the mobile part being adapted to slide along the fixed part, from a closed position wherein the mobile part extends in the extension of the fixed part, up to an open position wherein the mobile part is at least partly superimposed to the fixed part. For example, the fixed part is located in the upper part of the cowling, the mobile part being located in the lower part of the cowling.

Abstract: A propulsion unit comprises a turbojet engine and a thermal exchanger, situated above the turbojet engine. The turbojet engine comprises a regulation device to regulate an air flow-rate in a cooling air lead-in conduit conveying a stream of cooling air into a thermal exchanger, The regulation device regulates the air flow-rate upstream with respect to the cooling air lead-in conduit.

Abstract: A heat exchanger comprising a main heat exchange housing, a cooling air inlet line and a hot air inlet line to bring a cooling airflow and a hot airflow in the main housing. A heat pre-exchanger is disposed upstream from the main housing, the heat pre-exchanger being able to be crossed by the cooling airflow and the hot airflow prior to the main housing. The invention also relates to a propulsion unit and an aircraft comprising such a heat exchanger.

Abstract: A propulsion unit comprises a turbojet engine and a thermal exchanger, situated above the turbojet engine.

Abstract: A pod for an aircraft including a cowling, an engine housed in the inner volume of the cowling, an annular channel circulating a secondary thrust flow arranged between the engine and the cowling, and at least one thrust reverser for forming a reverse flow from the secondary thrust flow circulating in the annular channel. The thrust reverser including a plurality of doors provided in the rear part of the cowling, so as to form a trailing edge of the cowling. The thrust reverser can include means for actuating the doors such that at lease one actuating means actuates two adjacent doors and at least one door is actuated by two actuating means.

Abstract: An engine unit for an aircraft including a turboprop engine and its device for mounting on to a wing surface. The device includes a rigid structure and a mechanism for fastening the turboprop engine on to this structure. The fastening mechanism includes six mutually independent hydraulic systems, each one exclusively dedicated to the transfer, to the rigid structure, of efforts exerted respectively according to one of the six degrees of freedom of movement. Each hydraulic system includes at least one hydraulic jack with a piston attached to one of the two elements, i.e. either the turboprop engine or the rigid structure, together with a cylinder housing the piston and attached to the other of the two elements.

Abstract: A heat exchanger provided with a heat exchanger housing for circulating a cooling air flow and a hot air flow therein including a hot air input channel placed on the housing rear side for supplying the hot air flow to the heat exchanger housing and a cooling air discharge channel arranged on the rear side of said heat exchanger housing for exhausting the cooling air flow therefrom, wherein the channels are concentrically shaped. The disclosed embodiments also relate to a propulsion unit provided with the inventive heat exchanger, wherein the cooling air discharge channel arranged in the rear part of the housing crosses the strut in such a way that the cooling air flow is exhausted behind a jet engine. An aircraft provided with at least one inventive propulsion unit is also disclosed.

Abstract: A front attachment device for fastening a turbojet engine to an aircraft fixing strut. The attachment device is adapted to absorb the turbojet engine thrust loads, and includes a top bracket, and a lower bracket. A thrust load absorption vector results from a first convergence point of primary vectors passing through primary fixing points that couple the top bracket to the lower bracket and a second convergence point of secondary vectors passing through secondary fixing points that couple the lower bracket to the turbojet engine. The thrust load absorption vector transmits the turbojet engine thrust loads to the fixing strut, and extends along a longitudinal axis of the turbojet engine.

Abstract: A pod for an aircraft including a cowling, an engine housed in the inner volume of the cowling, an annular channel circulating a secondary thrust flow arranged between the engine and the cowling, and at least one thrust reverser for forming a reverse flow from the secondary thrust flow circulating in the annular channel. The thrust reverser including a plurality of doors provided in the rear part of the cowling, so as to form a trailing edge of the cowling. The thrust reverser can include means for actuating the doors such that at lease one actuating means actuates two adjacent doors and at least one door is actuated by two actuating means.

Abstract: An aircraft propulsion unit including a turbojet and a heat exchanger located above the turbojet and drawing a cooling air stream and a hot air stream in the turbojet. Wherein the cooling air intake and hot air intake surfaces in the housing are directed forward of the turbojet and have normal lines inclined relative to the axis of the turbojet. The embodiment also concerns an aircraft equipped with at least one such propulsion unit.

Abstract: A nacelle cowling for a turbojet, characterized in that it is provided with a fixed part and a mobile part, the mobile part being adapted to slide along the fixed part, from a closed position wherein the mobile part extends in the extension of the fixed part, up to an open position wherein the mobile part is at least partly superimposed to the fixed part. For example, the fixed part is located in the upper part of the cowling, the mobile part being located in the lower part of the cowling.

Abstract: Damage-tolerance attachment system for an aircraft engine. According to the invention, said system comprises two attachment devices (9) and (10) attaching the engine to the pylon (5) and a backup attachment device (16) intervening in said attachment only if at least one of said attachment devices (9, 10) fails.

Abstract: This invention relates to a mounting system (100) inserted between an aircraft engine (2) and a rigid structure (4) of an attachment strut (6) fixed under a wing (8) of this aircraft, the system including a forward mount (16), an aft mount (18) and a device (20, 120, 220) for resisting thrusts generated by the engine (2). The system also comprises additional means (23) for opposing the longitudinal bending of the engine (2), these additional means (23) being designed to resist loads only starting from a predetermined deformation of this engine (2). According to the invention, the additional means (23) comprise at least one connecting rod (32) capable of opposing longitudinal bending of the engine (2), each connecting rod (32) being connected firstly to the rigid structure (4) of the strut (6) and secondly to a fan casing (26) of the engine (2), so that it is only stressed starting from the predetermined deformation of this engine (2).

Abstract: A heat exchanger comprising a main heat exchange housing, a cooling air inlet line and a hot air inlet line to bring a cooling airflow and a hot airflow in the main housing. A heat pre-exchanger is disposed upstream from the main housing, the heat pre-exchanger being able to be crossed by the cooling airflow and the hot airflow prior to the main housing. The invention also relates to a propulsion unit and an aircraft comprising such a heat exchanger.