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A jet engine for an aircraft has a thrust reverser including one or more doors which define at least a part of the throat of the engine\s nozzle. The engine further includes a latch mechanism for retaining the doors in a stowed position. The doors may be deployed for reversal of engine thrust, but a

A jet engine for an aircraft has a thrust reverser including one or more doors which define at least a part of the throat of the engine\s nozzle. The engine further includes a latch mechanism for retaining the doors in a stowed position. The doors may be deployed for reversal of engine thrust, but are also capable while stowed of being pivoted in a limited way to change the cross-section area of the throat of the nozzle.

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An engine operable in both a direct thrust mode and a thrust reversing mode and having at least two thrust reverser doors movable between a stowed position corresponding to said direct thrust mode of the engine and a deployed position corresponding to said thrust reversing mode, said doors forming a

An engine operable in both a direct thrust mode and a thrust reversing mode and having at least two thrust reverser doors movable between a stowed position corresponding to said direct thrust mode of the engine and a deployed position corresponding to said thrust reversing mode, said doors forming a nozzle throat of the engine when said doors are in their stowed position, comprising: means for pivoting, without translational movement, said thrust reverser doors to said deployed position for thrust reversing in said thrust reversing mode about at least corresponding first pivot centers substantially at a longitudinal plane of the nozzle throat; means independent from said pivoting means for shifting said first pivot centers to corresponding second pivot centers substantially at the plane of the nozzle throat to vary the distance between respective ends of said doors along an axis transverse to the longitudinal axis of the engine to thereby change the cross-sectional area of the nozzle throat while said doors remain in their stowed position in said direct thrust mode.