A GAS TURBINE ENGINE

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A gas turbine engine for an aircraft comprises: an engine core comprising a turbine, a compressor, and a core shaft connecting the turbine to the compressor; a fan located upstream of the engine core, the fan comprising a plurality of fan blades; a bypass duct delimited by a bypass duct inner wall and a bypass duct outer wall and located radially outwardly from the engine core and downstream of the fan; and an outlet guide vane assembly, located within the bypass duct and, comprising a plurality of outlet guide vanes distributed circumferentially within the bypass duct, each outlet guide vane extending radially along a span between the bypass duct inner wall and the bypass duct outer wall, wherein a space-chord ratio of at least one outlet guide vane, at 50% of the span length from the bypass duct inner wall, is less than 0.72.

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