An intake for channeling air flowing past a propeller to an inlet of an aircraft engine that drives the propeller with a drive shaft, the intake including: a static cowling that extends along an axis and that flares outward at an upstream end of the static cowling, and an intake slot that is formed in the static cowling. The intake slot connecting to a passage of the inlet of the aircraft engine, the intake slot including an arched opening that extends less than 360 degrees of a circumference of the static cowling, and the intake slot having a downstream lip with a curved profile that blends into the static cowling.