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Abstract

A CMC airfoil includes core fiber plies that define a radial tube that circumscribes an internal cavity, and skin fiber plies that define an exterior of the airfoil section. There is a filler element in the trailing edge region aft of the internal cavity and sandwiched between the skin fiber plies on the pressure side and the skin fiber plies on the suction side. At least one cooling passage includes at least one inlet orifice section that opens to the internal cavity and extends through the core fiber plies, a radially-elongated multi-dimensional plenum connected with the at least one inlet orifice section, a plurality of outlet orifice sections extending through the trailing edge, and a plurality of intermediate passage sections bound by at least one of the skin plies and the filler element and connecting the radially-elongated multi-dimensional plenum with the plurality of outlet orifice sections.

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