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New Culinary Collective in OC
East 17th Street in Costa Mesa, is raising the bar as a farm to fresh foodie destination. Ever since, our favorite Avanti Café opened in 2005, (reviewed here in my "Best Bites" column in the Daily Pilot) it has inspired other like minded organic eateries and stores to move in.
Now we have, Sprouts Farmers Market, Greenleaf, and the new Anais+Raya Culinary Collective that just opened at Picnics Kitchen on E.17th Street. Organic, raw and vegan celeb chef Raya Belna teamed up with Anais Tangie, a local farmer's market advocate who runs the SoCo Farmer's Market and founded Special Eats OC, and created a haven for the farm-to-table community.
Anais+Raya Culinary Collective will offer cooking classes from local chefs, serve as a Market Grocery service, host pop-up restaurants and events, and each Sunday from 5 to 7 p.m. Chef Raya Belna and Anais Tangie will serve Farmers' Market Feasts with seasonal, local ingredients from the SoCo Farmer's Market in Costa Mesa. The family-style dinner changes weekly but will always includes vegan, raw, organic, and free-range, grass-fed ingredients and ends with decadent dessert.
You can also stop in Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for Chef Raya Belna's superfood smoothies, raw desserts, what's for dinner baskets and foods to go at her WildCraft Elixir Bar at Picnics Kitchen. (One bite of her award-winning RAW Avocado Fudge Cupcake and you'll be a Raya fan for life, promise.)
Anais-Raya Culinary Collective at Picnics Kitchen is at 435 E. 17th St, Suite 7 in Costa Mesa. 949.478.4857.
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The boutique shares spaces with Tourneau's new concept store and has its own entrance. Patek Philippe, est. 1851, is known for its complicated mechanical watches as well as being a pioneer of functions such as the perpetual calendar, split-seconds hand, minute repeater, and chronograph. Worn by royalty, Brad Pitt and Paul McCartney, as well as watch lovers throughout the world.
Patek Philippe is on Level 2, in Saks Fifth Avenue wing at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa. Open 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday to Friday; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday; 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Sunday.714.850.0222.
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Domino's Pizza Enterprises, the chain's operator in Australia, has transformed its online ordering website to make it quicker and easier for customers to order.
In a news release, CEO and Managing Director Don Meij said the launch of the new site was an essential step forward for the brand's presence on the digital platform and the biggest change to online ordering since it was launched in 2006.
"We need to ensure we're always taking on customer's feedback and searching for ways we can make our online ordering site more intuitive and user friendly," Meij said.
The upgrade allows customers to order without the need to have flash installed. The new site also includes changes to the address entry functions, more ways to get offers, menu layout, half-n-half pizza design, apply voucher layout, swap buttons, basket layout and a redesigned Live Pizza Tracker page.
Meij said these changes will help drive the Domino's digital growth over the coming year. The brand currently has more than 50 percent of its sales come from digital channels. He expects that to grow to 80 percent within the next three years.
In addition to the new site, Domino's Australia customers will also be taken to the optimized mobile site if they're accessing the site via their mobile device.
"Customers are now accessing Domino's faster, easier and with more control than ever before. "We now offer custom-built order applications across multiple ordering platforms, giving control to our customers no matter where they are or what they are doing," Meij said.
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The Original PennySaver, the Brea-based direct-mail ad publication with 780 local editions, is celebrating 50 years in business.
Bob DeMarco started the first PennySaver in Huntington Beach in 1962 as an advertising vehicle for local businesses. It moved to Brea in 1981.The publication hasn't changed its format much in a half century, the company said.
The all-ads weekly newsprint publication has become part of pop culture with mentions everywhere from TV show "Saturday Night Live" to movie "Juno" to book "It Chooses You" by Miranda July.
Harte-Hanks, a targeted direct marketing giant, bought PennySaver from DeMarco in 1973. Somehow the name wasn't trademarked so unaffiliated publications also called PennySaver started popping up in other states including New York, a spokeswoman said. In 1997, Harte-Hanks bought the PennySaver in Vista from ABC Inc., a subsidiary of Walt Disney Co.
Now the company refers to the publication as The Original PennySaver and boasts 780 print editions for different communities, PennySaverUSA.com and TheFlyer.com in Florida. The publications are mailed to 11.2 million U.S. addresses weekly, the company said.
In 2011, it launched SaverTime.com, a localized daily deals site for California and two apps for iPhone and Android smartphones. One of the apps is for garage sales listings and the other is a coupon finder.
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The invention relates to aircraft environmental control systems powered by gas turbine engines for supplying aircraft system bleed air. In particular, the invention relates to an aircraft gas turbine engine powered bleed air supply system for an environmental control system wherein the excess pressure energy is returned to the engine to improve fuel efficiency and the system is also used to reduce drag on engine nacelles or other surfaces by pumping boundary layer air. Environmental control systems, commonly referred to as ECS systems, incorporate various pieces of equipment such as turbocompressors, regulating valves, heat exchangers, and other devices in a system which is often referred to as an ECS pack to condition engine bleed air. Modern day jet aircraft use turbocompressors in their environmental controls systems to condition bleed air for use in the cabin wherein the turbocompressors are powered by the same bleed that is conditioned for cabin refreshing air and which is usually supplied by the gas turbine engines which provide aircraft propulsion. Bleed air is conventionally taken from the engine compressor at a stage downstream of the variable vane compressor stages so as not to interfere with the operation of the variable vane stages which greatly enhance the efficiency of the gas turbine engine and greatly reduces the specific fuel consumption (SFC) of the engine.
The compressor bleed air is cooled by fan air in a heat exchanger and is then delivered to the environmental control system for controlling cabin air freshness, pressure, and temperature. The ECS conventionally includes two ECS packs mounted in ECS bays on different sides of the aircraft which receive compressor bleed air from the engines. The bleed after being used to power the ECS pack and refresh the cabin is then dumped overboard. All the energy remaining in the bleed air dumped overboard cost fuel and therefore represents a significant loss in specific fuel consumption.
Extraction of aircraft bleed air from the engine compressor has adverse affects on the propulsion cycle and engine life. Engine turbine power is needed to compress air and account for compressor inefficiency. Therefore, extra fuel consumption is always associated with gas turbine engine compressor bleed air (air which does not produce thrust). This extra fuel burned in the engine combustor results in higher gas temperature delivered to the engine turbine and reduction of turbine blade life. Such penalties must be incurred in order that the engine turbine provide extra power associated with bleed air.
It is not possible, without undue complexity, to always bleed the engine compressor stage which provides exactly the correct pressure needed for the aircraft anti-ice and ECS systems. Typically only two bleed ports ar provided. Therefore, the result is to bleed air which exceeds minimum pressure requirements resulting in even higher penalty to the engine cycle than would be required by the aircraft systems.
Most often the bleed air is not only at a higher than required pressure, it is also too hot. For reasons of fire safety, maximum bleed air temperature is usually limited to 350� to 500� F. Temperature control requires cooling the bleed air with a precooler. Most modern engines use fan air to cool compressor bleed air. Use of fan air imposes an additional penalty on fuel consumption. Further, the precooler is usually large and requires a fan air scoop which produces drag. A typical large turbofan engine will consume about 2% extra fuel and run at about 20� F. hotter turbine temperature in order to provide aircraft system bleed air. The present invention addresses these problems and deficiencies characteristic of the prior art and conventional apparatus used to supply aircraft bleed air.
A second aspect of this invention concerns the engine air driven starter. Air starters are conventionally air powered turbines having planetary gearboxes which are usually connected to a high pressure rotor in driving relationship and mounted to the engine accessory gearbox. The starter turbine rotates at very high speed and drives the engine through a planetary gear system during engine acceleration to just below idle speed. Once the engine lights it begins to develop its own power and, at a speed below idle, accelerates away from the starter. An overrunning mechanical clutch allows the starter to disengage and then the starter air is shut off and the starter turbine comes to rest. During the remainder of the flight the starter is not used for any purpose and simply represents extra weight carried around by the aircraft.
Within a very narrow flight profile of the aircraft, the starter can sometimes be used for emergency engine relight, but only at conditions where the windmill speed of the engine is low enough that the starter clutch can be engaged without damage due to what is referred to as crash engagement. Engine starters can not be used during normal aircraft cruise conditions; where the only means for relight is from the freely windmilling engine. One advantage of the present invention is that it permits operation of the air starter during all aircraft flight conditions thereby avoiding the delay in engine relight which can be associated with flight conditions unfavorable for fast windmill relights. The present invention further enhances the solution to the relight problem by using the starter turbine during all operation conditions as a means for improving the performance of the auxiliary bleed air compressor.
A third advantage of this invention relates to aerodynamic drag associated with engine nacelles, wings, pylons, tail sections and other aircraft outer surfaces. As air flows on to and over a surface such as an engine nacelle and aircraft wing it progressively builds up a low velocity boundary layer of increasing thickness. Within this boundary layer a portion of the velocity component of free stream total pressure is converted to increased static pressure. As the result of rise in static pressure, boundary layer thickness, and diffusion a point is reached where back pressure causes an otherwise laminar boundary layer to become turbulent.
In the turbulent region, a considerable amount of total pressure is converted to static temperature represented thermodynamically as an increase in entropy. By the time the boundary layer leaves the surface, or in the particular case of an aircraft gas turbine engine the end of the nacelle, an unrecoverable loss in total pressure has occurred. The large entropy rise associated with turbulence is at the expense of air momentum. Turbulence also gives rise to increased static pressure which may increase the intensity of rearward acting pressure force on the surface. Now, if the boundary layer thickness is kept small, separation and turbulence will not occur or will be delayed and drag can be substantially reduced.
One way to avoid increase in boundary thickness is to pump or bleed off boundary layer air through holes in the surface. Boundary layer pumps or compressors would be desirable from an aerodynamic standpoint but, because of the relatively large air flow rates and added weight and complexity associated with effective boundary layer pumping or bleeding, the concept has not been adapted in modern aircraft and engines. Therefore in one embodiment of the invention, this invention provides a means for effectively and economically using the engine starting turbine to power a nacelle boundary layer bleed compressor to bleed off laminar flow boundary layer air from the nacelle to reduce drag. Yet another embodiment uses an ECS heat exchanger cooling fan to bleed off laminar flow boundary layer air from the wing to reduce drag.
A similar problem was addressed in and reference may be made to the patent application Ser. No. 07/489,150 entitled "AIRCRAFT ENGINE STARTER INTEGRATED BOUNDARY BLEED SYSTEM", invented by Samuel Davison, filed Mar. 6, 1990 and assigned to the sam assignee and incorporated herein by reference. Bleed air taken into the engine compressor also incurs a ram drag penalty (loss of momentum). Engine net thrust is equal to engine exhaust momentum minus inlet ram drag.
It is, therefore, an object of the present invention to provide a more efficient aircraft gas turbine engine by using the energy in the compressor bleed air that is conventionally wasted.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a lighter weight and more efficient and longer life aircraft gas turbine engine.
A further object of the present invention is to reduce or eliminate the need for engine fan supplied cooling air for the ECS bleed air precooler.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a fuel efficient system for supplying compressed air to the aircraft ECS systems.
Another object of the present invention is to provide the engine with a quick and reliable in flight restart or relight capability.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide the engine with a starter that avoids the need for crash engagement for in flight relight.
A further object of the present invention is to reduce aircraft boundary layer drag in a fuel efficient manner.
Another object of the present invention is to us boundary layer bleed air to reduce base pressure drag in low pressure regions of the aircraft engine fan duct.
The objects and other features and advantages will become more readily apparent in the following description when taken in conjunction with the appended drawings.
Briefly, in accordance with one aspect of the present invention, an environmental control system apparatus for an aircraft powered by a gas turbine engine is provided with an engine compressor bleed supply means and an energy recovery means for returning the unrequired or unused amount of energy back to the engine. The energy recovery means includes a starting air turbine mechanically linked in driving relationship through the starter air turbine's planetary gearbox to the high pressure rotor of the gas turbine engine wherein the air turbine includes a variable inlet and a means to control it which is in switchable fluid supply communication with sources of compressed starting air and gas turbine engine compressor bleed air and provided with a means for ducting its exhaust flow to an environmental control system pack ECS compressor. The ECS includes a means for producing a pressure differential signal which is provided to the variable inlet control means for controlling the variable inlet.
Another embodiment of the invention provides an auxiliary compressor drivingly linked to the starting air turbine, preferably on a common shaft, and having an inlet in fluid communication with a means for bleeding a portion of the boundary layer air from the outer surface of the nacelle.
Yet another embodiment includes an ECS heat exchanger cooling fan driven by the turbine of the ECS turbocompressor wherein the ECS fan includes an inlet in fluid communication with a means for bleeding a portion of the boundary layer air from a forward portion of the outer surface of the aircraft wing.
According to another embodiment of the present invention the means for bleeding a portion of the boundary layer air from a forward portion of the outer surface of the aircraft wing or nacelle includes a perforated outer skin connected to an annular plenum below the perforated skin.
And another embodiment includes a means for dumping the boundary layer bleed air into a low pressure region of the fan duct that produces base pressure drag on the engine such as the aft end of the pylon fairing.
FIG. 1 is a schematic representation of an aircraft dual rotor gas turbine engine.
FIG. 2 is a schematic representation of the preferred embodiment of the gas turbine engine powered aircraft environmental control system and aircraft boundary layer bleed of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a schematic representation of the an alternate embodiment of the present invention as shown in FIG. 2 without the aircraft boundary layer bleed features.
FIG. 4 is a schematic representation of the an alternate embodiment of the present invention as shown in FIG. 3 which includes an engine fan supplied precooler to precool the bleed air for the ECS.
FIG. 5 is a cutaway perspective drawing of an aircraft engine fan duct.
FIG. 5a is a cross section AA taken through the pylon fairing in FIG. 5 looking radially inward toward the engine.
FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a tail assembly of an aircraft having a tail engine mounted in a tail engine nacelle.
FIG. 1 illustrates a typical gas turbine engine 10 having in serial flow relationship a fan section 12, a low pressure compressor (LPC) 16 a high pressure compressor (HPC) 20, a combustion section 24, a high pressure turbine (HPT) 30, and a low pressure turbine (LPT) 34. A high pressure rotor 31 includes high pressure (HP) shaft 38 which connects, in driving relationship HPT 30 to HPC 20 and a low pressure rotor 35 includes a low pressure shaft 42 disposed within high pressure (LP) shaft 38 which drivingly connects LPT 34 to LPC 16 and fan 12. A power takeoff shaft 47 drivingly connects HP shaft 38 to starter gearbox 48 through a transfer gearbox 38 depicted by the 45 degree bevel gears in FIG. 1.
A compressor bleed means 54, in FIG. 1, includes a mid compressor bleed line 43, preferably a seventh stage bleed for a General Electric CF6-80C2, and a compressor discharge bleed line 45 manifolded together and ducted out of HPC 20 by a compressor bleed duct 56. Disposed in mid compressor bleed line 43 is a check valve 44 which prevents higher pressure air from compressor discharge bleed line 45, which has a pressure actuated shutoff valve 46 disposed in it, flowing into a midstage of the compressor. During idle operation of the gas turbine engine 10 air from compressor discharge bleed line 45 is used and during the rest of the engine's operation compressor bleed air is supplied from mid compressor bleed line 43 to compressor bleed duct 56.
FIG. 2 schematically depicts the preferred embodiment of the present invention for a wing mounted aircraft gas turbine engine 10. The preferred embodiment includes a power supply means for an aircraft ECS using compressed air supplied by a gas turbine engine bleed means 54 from a midstage bleed line 43 or a compressor discharge bleed line 45 and an energy recovery means for returning the unrequired or unused amount of energy back to engine 10. The energy recovery means includes a starting air turbine 50 drivingly connected through a starter gearbox 48 and power takeoff shaft 47 to HP shaft 38. Starter gearbox 48 is preferably a planetary type gearbox so as to be able to efficiently receive and distribute power supplied to it by air turbine 50 and is conventionally integrated within the same casing or assembly (not shown) as air turbine 50.
Air turbine 50 is preferably a single stage radial inflow air turbine having an air turbine inlet 57. Compressor bleed means 54 on engine 10 is connected in fluid supply communication by a compressor bleed duct 56 to air turbine inlet 57. A switchable starting air supply means 280, conventionally ducted to air turbine inlet 57 through a multi-function duct 70, provides sources of starting air including inflight sources such as crossbleed systems from other engines. Disposed in multi- function duct line 70 is a switchable staring air dump valve 77 having a overboard dump line 93.
Air turbine 50 includes a variable vane inlet 57 to control the pressure of compressed engine bleed air supplied to ECS flow control valve 80. The energy recovery means further provides for control of variable vane inlet 57 which is maintained by closed loop controller 500 which responds to a differential pressure signal provided by ECS flow control valve 80. Closed loop controller 500 closes and opens variable vane inlet 57, like the iris on a camera lens, in order to prevent less than a preselected pressure differential, about 1 psid or as system requirements dictate, across ECS flow control valve 80.
During engine ground start operation of the invention illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2 air turbine 50 operates as a conventional air starting turbine receiving compressed starting air from starting air supply 280. Starting air is then dumped overboard by starting air dump valve 77 through line 93. The power created from air turbine 50 cranks HPT shaft 38 through starter gearbox 48 until engine 10 is capable of continuing operation without assist from air turbine 50. At this point of the engine's operation air turbine 50 continues to operate off of the compressor air supplied from compressor bleed means 54 unlike conventional starters which employ some sort of clutch mechanism after engine start to disconnect the starting turbine. Starting air valve 77 is then returned to a position which allows compressor bleed air to reach ECS pack 100.
The preferred embodiment, as shown in FIG. 2 is provided with an aircraft nacelle boundary layer bleed means having a nacelle boundary layer bleed means 216 including a perforated skin 214 surrounds a forward nacelle portion 220 having disposed within a nacelle plenum 210 for bleeding a portion of the boundary layer from the forward portion of the nacelle 220 which extends aft from about the nacelle leading edge 218. Nacelle plenum 210 is ducted to a nacelle boundary layer compressor 60 via nacelle bleed duct 230. Nacelle boundary layer compressor 60 is drivenly connected to air turbine 50 preferably on a common rotor or shaft 52 and maybe integrally mounted within a common casing with air turbine 50 so as to form a staring air and aircraft boundary layer bleed turbocompressor. In the preferred embodiment, boundary layer compressor 60 is a centrifugal compressor having a nacelle boundary layer bleed inlet 62 and outlet 64 which dumps to a low pressure region of the engine 66 such as in the fan bypass duct 13, schematically depicted in FIG. 1, where it may be used for thrust and reduction of localized fan duct base pressure drag.
FIG. 5 shows, in greater detail, one low pressure region 518 of fan duct 13 of particular note. FIG. 5 shows engine 10 having a fan section 12 including fan blades 14 circumscribed by annular nacelle 200 which forms the radially outward wall of fan duct 13 aft of fan blades 14. Radially disposed within fan duct 13 in serial flow relationship are fan exit guide vanes 508, struts 512, and pylon fairings 516 respectively. Pylon fairing 516 conventionally has an airfoil shaped cross section as is more particularly shown in FIG. 5A which shows a cross section AA, looking radially inward, of the pylon fairing 516 shown in FIG. 5. The cross section more particularly points out the aerodynamic shape of pylon fairing 516 designed to reduce its drag thus giving it a thickened front end and a narrow thinned out aft end where the low pressure induced base pressure drag occurs. Low pressure region 518 lies in the thinned out aft section of airfoil shaped pylon fairing 516 which passes across fan duct 13.
The boundary layer air is bled from the nacelles, wings, and tail assemblies, is ambient pressure air having a substantial velocity relative to the aircraft thereby causing the aircraft to incur a significant ram air drag penalty when the air and its momentum is taken on board. Using this compressed bleed air to reduce base pressure drag compensates, to some extent, the ram air drag penalty. Dumping this used bleed air in a low pressure region of the fan duct such as in the thin section 518 of pylon fairing 516 reduces base pressure drag, and produces some extra thrust so as to further compensate for the ram air drag penalty. A description and of low pressure induced base pressure drag may be found in the classical reference on the subject of drag, FLUID-DYNAMIC DRAG by Sighard Hoerner (particularly pages 3-18 to 3-20 and page 20-16), which is incorporated herein by reference.
ECS pack 100, which has its various components depicted within the dotted rectangle in FIG. 2, is ducted to air turbine outlet 59 via a multi-function bleed duct 70 for receiving ECS bleed air. A multi-function bleed duct 70 conventionally also provides compressed starting air to the starting air turbine 50 and anti-icing air when needed. Operably disposed in multi-function bleed duct 70, in serial flow relationship, is a pressure regulating valve 76 used to limit the pressure within multi-function bleed duct 70 and a flow control valve 80 used to measure the amount and adjust the pressure of the bleed flow to the ECS pack 100.
Multi-function bleed duct 70 ducts ECS bleed air to primary heat exchanger 110 located in ECS pack 100 from where it is ducted to an ECS turbocompressor 125 via an ECS turbocompressor inlet duct 120 and used to power the ECS turbocompressor 125. Although in the preferred embodiment there should be no need for an engine compressor bleed air precooler, if air turbine 50 can be sized properly to provide, through expansion, all the cooling required of the engine compressor bleed air ducted through duct 70, there may be designs that require some precooling that may be provided by such a precooler as depicted in an alternate embodiment shown in FIG. 4 and explained in further detail further on herein.
ECS turbocompressor 125 includes an ECS compressor 130 which receives ECS bleed air from duct 120 and ducts it to a bleed air powered ECS turbine 150 via an intercooler duct 134 which first passes through a secondary heat exchanger 136 for the purpose of intercooling the ECS bleed air after it has been compressed by ECS compressor 130. The ECS bleed air is expanded through ECS turbine 150 to power the ECS turbine and cool the ECS bleed air and subsequently ducted to the aircraft cabin 167. ECS turbine 150 is mounted in driving relationship on a common turbocompressor shaft or rotor 162 with ECS compressor 130 and an ECS cooling fan 132.
The preferred embodiment further provides a wing boundary layer bleed means 185 including a forward wing portion 190 of aircraft wing 180 wherein the forward portion is covered with a perforated wing skin 194 disposed about a wing plenum 180 which exhausts to ECS cooling duct 300 which passes through and provides the cooling air for secondary heat exchanger 136 and primary heat exchanger 110. During operation ECS cooling fan 132, driven by ECS turbine 150, draws the boundary layer off the wing as opposed to being unused in a conventional system wherein air scoops on the outside of the aircraft use ram air to cool the heat exchangers. Therefore the present invention has the added advantage of not requiring any additional rotating equipment such as a compressor to bleed a portion of the boundary off of the wing. This advantage significantly reduces any additional complexity or weight that might otherwise be added to the aircraft and its gas turbine engines.
Another embodiment is depicted in FIG. 3 does not include either the nacelle or the wing boundary layer bleed features of the embodiment in FIG. 2 and incorporates a conventional aircraft cooling air scoop to gather cooling air for heat exchangers 110 and 136 in ECS pack 100. A speed control means 550, which may be electronic, mechanical, or hydraulic in operation and either automatically or manually controlled, provides the proper switching of gear ratios for two speed drive 400 thus allowing turbine 50 to operate at two different gear ratios with respect to HP shaft 38. A two speed, preferably clutch operated, drive 400 is schematically shown located between air turbine 50 and gearbox 48 so as to allow air turbine 50 to operate at two different gear ratios with respect to HP shaft 38 corresponding to engine start-up and running conditions respectively. Drive 400 is preferably a planetary gear type drive or gearbox and the clutch is preferably integrated into the planetary gearbox assembly.
As illustrated in FIG. 2, the preferred embodiment of the present invention, air turbine 50 continues to operate after engine start-up is complete and provides multiple functions and capabilities not found in conventional aircraft gas turbine engines. Starting air turbine 50 expands and therefore cools the compressor bleed air received from compressor bleed means 54 thereby reducing or eliminating the need for a bleed air precooler as found in conventional ECS systems if the system is properly sized and designed.
However, an alternate embodiment, shown in FIG. 4, adds, to the preferred embodiment shown in FIG. 2, a fan powered compressor bleed air precooler 71 which requires little or no fan powered cooling air under most conditions but is included for those portions of the engine's flight envelope where it may be required or beneficial. Thus a substantial reduction in specific fuel consumption may be accomplished by reducing or eliminating the use of fan air for compressor bleed air precooling over a substantial portion of the aircraft gas turbine engine's operational envelope. Referring to FIG. 4, a fan bleed air duct 73, also shown in FIG. 1, ducts pressurized cooling air through compressor bleed air precooler 71, where it cools the compressor bleed air in compressor bleed air duct 70 being ducted to ECS pack 100, before being dumped through dump line 74.
An alternative embodiment shown in FIG. 6, contemplates bleeding boundary layer air from the airfoil structures of the tail assembly of an aircraft, such as the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 or MD-11, having a tail mounted engine. Such an embodiment would include the nacelle mounted engine and use the same ECS packs of FIG. 2 but without the wing boundary bleed system since the engine is not mounted near a wing. The embodiment includes the nacelle boundary bleed system 216 including air turbine 50 which drives nacelle boundary bleed compressor 60 as shown in FIG. 2. Referring to FIG. 6, the aircraft 610 includes a tail assembly 620 having a tail engine nacelle 624, a horizontal stabilizers 632 and vertical stabilizer 630. The tail engine nacelle 624 contains a gas turbine engine as in FIG. 2 but without powered wing bleed system. Nacelle 624 and stabilizers 630 and 632 each have respective perforated skin covered forward portions 638 of the stabilizers and 640 of the tail engine nacelle. The nacelle boundary layer bleed compressor 60 depicted in FIG. 2 is used to bleed air boundary layer air for the tail engine nacelle 624, vertical stabilizer 630, and horizontal stabilizers 632 through perforations 646 through an integrated series of flowpaths and plenums (not shown) beneath the perforated skins. It is contemplated that the plenums beneath the stabilizers would have flowpaths connected to a tail engine nacelle plenum and associated nacelle boundary layer bleed system similar to that shown in FIG. 2.
The present invention provides a distinct advantage for improving specific fuel consumption by returning otherwise unused energy to the engine and using the starting air turbine and ECS pack to reduce drag on the nacelles, wings, and tail assemblies by bleeding off boundary layer air. Sample calculations to determine the magnitude of the advantages that can be realized from the present invention were made based on the following presumptions. Typical Boeing 767-300 and McDonnell Douglas MD-11 aircraft having two and three General Electric CF6-80C2 engines respectively and passenger loads of 261 and 348 people respectively and for operating conditions at a 35,000 foot cruising altitude at a point where the engines are operating at thrust levels of 8400 and 8600 pounds respectively. The return of the unused energy in the compressor bleed flow represents a calculated reduction of 0.68% and 0.52% in specific fuel consumption for each respective engine and the nacelle boundary layer bleed means contributes approximately an additional reduction of 0.79% and 0.8% in specific fuel consumption per engine respectively. The wing boundary layer bleed means contributes a calculated reduction of 1.6% per aircraft or 0.8% per wing mounted engine in specific fuel consumption. The total projected reduction in specific fuel consumption is over 2% per aircraft, representing a significant fuel savings to the aircraft operators. The present invention has been described in an illustrative manner. It is to be understood that the terminology which has been used is intended to be in the nature of words of description rather than of limitation. It is important to note the multifunctionality ascribed to many elements of the invention such as ducts, valves, fans, and compressors which provide the advantages of decreased engine and aircraft specific fuel consumption and lower aircraft drag. The invention contemplates using the energy recovery system and the wing, the nacelle, and the combination nacelle and tail assembly boundary layer bleed systems individually as well as in combination in various embodiments of the present invention.
Obviously, many modifications and variations of the present invention are possible in light of the above teachings. It is, therefore, to be understood that within the scope of the appended claims, the present invention may be practiced otherwise than a specifically described.
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Owner name: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, NEW YORK
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Where I'm Calling From: Selected Storiesby Raymond Carver, Peter Riegert
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Few American writers are more admired than the late Raymond Carver. In Where I'm Calling From, his highly-acclaimed short story collection, Carver displays an astounding genius.
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Few American writers are more admired than the late Raymond Carver. In Where I'm Calling From, his highly-acclaimed short story collection, Carver displays an astounding genius.
Carver's stories are populated by characters living in an unforgiving world, suffering the burdens of displacement, divorce, despair. These people snarl and bark and speak in bursts of rough-and tumble dialogue. They are everybody, anybody, nobody. Here, Carver has captured a heart-wrenchingly poignant world of real people with real problems, convincingly portrayed in a spare and gritty style.
A final testament to Carver's towering talent, Where I'm Calling From is a mesmerizing masterpiece of fiction, drama, and poetry.
Stories included:
Chef's House
Little Things
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A Serious Talk
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Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please (a National Book Award nominee in 1977), was followed by What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1984), and Where I'm Calling From in 1988, when he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in August of that year, shortly after completing the poems of A New Path to the Waterfall.
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Peter Riegert costarred in the hit movie Crossing Delancey. His other film credits include Animal House and Local Hero. He has appeared in several Broadway and off-Broadway productions and on television in the PBS miniseries Concealed Enemies.
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People who consider Raymond Carver to be a strictly minimalist writer should really read this book from cover to cover. What they will discover is a career on the cusp of change, just before the author's life was tragically cut short. The stories are presented in chronological order. The opening dozen stories or so are classics of minimalist style which reaches its peak with the devestating 3-page story 'Little Things' in which a child is literally torn apart by its parents divorce. But Carver's tone and style changes in the stories that follow. 'What We Talk About When We Talk about Love' and the gut-wrenching 'So Much Water So Close To Home' take on a new level of story-telling where Carver gives us a more intimate look at his characters. The last two of the previously published stories are nothing like the earlier stories. In 'Cathedral', a typical Carver married man--distant, cynical, and slightly smug--makes surprising contact with another human being, presumably for the first time, in the most unlikely of situations. It is almost a salvation. 'A Good Small Thing' (which was a revision of an earlier story called 'Scotty') is nothing less than a masterpiece. In Carver's earlier career, this story would have ended bitterly and, perhaps, indifferently. Instead, this story ends up with an astonishing flavor of hope, forgiveness, and even closure. The seven 'New Stories' at the collection's end just drive home the fact that Carver was really moving forward or at least in a new direction. I defy anyone to read 'Intimacy' or 'Elephant' and say, 'Typical minimalism.' I would place a heavy bet that the reader would reply the same way I did, 'Damn! Damn! Can you imagine what he'd be writing if he were still with us?' Damn.
I never heard of Ray Carver until I read this book for my Eng Lit class in college. I felt it was such a strong self-reflection of Carver's own life. Captivating! Many of his endings are left for the reader's imagination to come up with their own suitable ending to the story with or without a moral. Very sad at times also.
This book belongs in the Pantheon of American short fiction collections. Very few American writers match his gift for the short story and this book contains all his most celebrated works. Kick yourself if you consider yourself a true reader and haven't read at least 50% of this book.
This is one of the best short stories collection I have ever read. Carver's characters are as real as they would be real life people.
Mr. Carver is a genius who has done a great deal for the short story, but, unfortunately, this collection is tedious to me. The drinking, flawed characters took a toll on me, and, while I can appreciate his flair for realistic dialogue, I tire of the plots that seem to all end in unhappiness or ambiguity. Others may not agree and will have to pick up a copy and judge for themselves.


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Listen up, New Yorkers: Your local government is here to educate you about the dangers of listening to your iPod too loud. Whatever would you do without them? The NY Post reports:
Mayor Bloomberg — who has already cracked down on smoking, junk food, trans fats, salt and super-sized drinks — is embarking on a new crusade: preventing New Yorkers from going deaf.
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The campaign, which will cost $250,000, is being financed through a grant received from the Fund for Public Health, the Health Department's fund-raising arm.
No laws or regulations or anything in the works for this one (for now), it's more in the way of a public-awareness campaign, but come on. There are a billion and one different things in this world that are hazardous to our health — is it really any government's job to try and save us from ourselves on every single one of them, especially when it means that there are government employees being paid with tax dollars whose jobs are even partially dedicated to that kind of thing. Mayor Bloomberg has managed to double New York City's debt to $110 billion in a decade (and according to him, this is with the federal government providing for 10-12 percent of the city's budget), but it certainly sounds like there are a few bureaucrats they can afford to shave off…
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From Mozart and Mike Love, to Stevie Nicks and Trent Reznor, the tambourine has been a mainstay in popular music for centuries. Consisting of a head, shell, and jingles, the unmistakable sound of a tambourine can be used to add color and character to an endless array of musical applications. Thankfully, many of the world's most well-known percussion brands specialize in the manufacturing of high-quality tambourines, including DW, CB, Gon Bops, and many others.
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Understanding the basics of tambourine playing is so easy, it only makes sense for every percussionist to develop a good technique of the instrument. Used correctly in the right settings and situations, players can get quite creative with the tambourine. To get an idea of what can be accomplished with the tambourine, check out the many fantastic works of percussionist legend and Grammy award winner Glen Velez. Virtuoso's like Velez are proof that you can aspire to greatness with even the most uncomplicated instruments, and the tambourine is a perfect example.