One-piece inlet lip skin design

摘要

An aircraft engine inlet incorporates a lip skin (24) having a skin web (25) with a plurality of stiffeners (34) integrally extending from the skin web (25). An aft edge land (30) integrally extends from the skin web (25) at an outer rim (26) and an inner edge land (32) integrally extends from the skin web (25) at an inner rim (28). A central land (36) integrally extends from the skin web (25) with the plurality of stiffeners (34) extending between said aft edge land (30) and the central land (36).