High Efficiency Hybrid Turbo-Electric Propulsion Design

In a rapidly changing world, the United States Military will need to create transformative aircraft designs to ensure total air dominance over any battlefield of the future.  Transformative Air Force and DoD aircraft designs of the future will need a large amount of auxiliary power generation from a hybrid turbo-electric engine to operate inflight payloads such as radar or directed energy devices.  Dramatic transformative aircraft designs will also need to make use of a full range of aggressive, powered technologies, such as distributed propulsion and distributed aerodynamic flow control, to increase aircraft performance and mission effectiveness.  Creative Innovations For Aerospace (CIFA) has developed a hybrid turbine engine architecture and topology that has the power density, efficiency, flexibility, adaptability and power generating capability to meet the future propulsion needs of transformative aircraft designs.  This proposed hybrid turbine engine architecture and topology, CIFA Engine Architecture (CEA), is covered by U.S. patents 11,365,706, 11,506,116 and 11,619,165.  The CEA turbine engine will allow new, vastly different advanced aircraft configurations that are not possible today.  A new generation of turbine engines will also need to generate much more electrical power to operate payloads and mission enhancing equipment in the airframe that were not possible before.   As a new generation aircraft goes through different phases of a flight, different levels of auxiliary power will be needed at different locations in the airframe.  At take-off, a hybrid engine could send power to high lift devices, lift fans, or rotors.  During the cruise or loiter flight segments, the high lift systems, lift fans, or rotors could be shut down and the power rerouted to devices that will improve cruise speed and/or recharge batteries.  High powered radar or jammers or directed energy payloads could also be operated.  On landing approach, power could once again go to high lift devices, lift fans, or rotors for landing.  Any extra power needed by the high lift systems could be drawn from a small battery system for the short time needed to take off or landing.  Current turbines are not adaptable enough in their basic design and not flexible enough in their operation to generate large amounts of auxiliary power.   Turbine engines of the future will need to generate larger amounts of auxiliary power that can be used to increase aircraft performance and mission capabilities.  The CEA turbine engine does have the power density, efficiency, flexibility, adaptability and electrical power generation capability to meet the future propulsion needs of dramatically better Air Force & DOD aircraft.