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7219854 Cycloidal hybrid advanced surface effects vehicle  
A “wing in ground effect” aerial vehicle includes a wing mounted on a fuselage, and two cycloidal propulsion units for providing lift, thrust and longitudinal control. Additional lift is...
7213786 Lift unit for vertical take-off and landing aerial vehicle  
A lift unit for a vertical take-off and landing type aerial vehicle. A smooth, cylindrical rotor, rotating at a high rate, as close as is practicable to the smooth, inside of a half-cylindrical,...
7014143 Aircraft lightning strike protection and grounding technique  
An aircraft panel assembly 10 is provided, including a panel core 28, a plurality of pre-preg layers 30 surrounding the panel core 28 forming an internal layer of plies 34, at least one...
6913225 Construction and method of use in a carrier rocket or satellite  
A construction intended for a carrier rocket or a satellite, comprising a first construction part ( 21 ), which is made of a composite material comprising two essentially parallel walls ( 23, 24 )...
6885917 Enhanced flight control systems and methods for a jet powered tri-mode aircraft  
A method of stabilizing a jet-powered tri-mode aircraft as the aircraft travels in a helicopter mode, a compound mode, and a fixed-wing mode is disclosed. The method includes receiving a plurality...
6845941 Rotary/fixed wing aircraft  
A rotor system that allows an aircraft to operate as a helicopter and as an airplane is disclosed. The invention incorporates an annular airfoil attached at the tips of the rotor blades. The rotor...
6789764 Dual-flight mode tandem rotor wing  
A vertical takeoff and landing aircraft ( 10 ) is provided including an aircraft fuselage ( 12 ). A plurality of hubs ( 20 ) are mechanically coupled to the fuselage ( 12 ) and are rotated by at...
6527229 Aerodynamic lift generating device  
An aircraft has its wing defined as a wing-like body with a tangential flow rotor in the leading edge. A shroud, under the lower part of the tangential flow rotor, terminates in at least one...
6402088 Passenger vehicle employing a circumferentially disposed rotatable thrust assembly  
A vertical take-off and landing vehicle that employs a thrust assembly, a fuselage, and an intermediate rotation decoupling interface assembly for rotationally decoupling the thrust assembly from...
6231004 Fluid dynamic lift generation  
An aircraft lifting member (wing) comprises a crossflow rotor 2 formed of a core 4 having rotor vanes 5 mounted around it, disposed in a trough 3 at the front upper part of a wing-like body 1....
6050520 Vertical take off and landing aircraft  
An aircraft for vertical take off and landing is comprised of a rotor assembly mounted on a rotating drive shaft extending from the top of a cabin. The rotor assembly is comprised of a...
6016992 STOL aircraft  
A STOL aircraft has a fuselage 22 vertical 26 and horizontal 27 rear stabilizers and at least one wing made up of a lower primary airfoil 10 and an upper complementary airfoil 11 which, between...
5180119 Vertical lift system through tangential blowing of air jets channelled over the top of rotating cylinders  
This invention pertains to a means of aerial lift depending on the use of an air jet blown and channelled (through a nozzle and a vane) exclusively and almost tangentially over a limited segment of...
4535714 Rudder rotor for watercraft and floating equipment  
The invention relates to an electric rudder rotor which in its simplest construction is in the form of an externally running underwater electric motor and comprises a fixed stator and a rotating...
4502724 Vehicle payload lightener  
The exterior of a vehicle, e.g. the roof of a land vehicle such as a tractor trailer cab, trailer, truck, bus, auto, van, rail car or the like, is provided with exposed moving surface, which moves...
4469294 V/STOL Aircraft  
A V/STOL aircraft comprising a fuselage, having three sets of wings that are offset lengthwise and vertically. The center set of relatively small relatively thick wings 34 between the canard 14 and...
4401284 Collapsible magnus-effect rotor  
A lift-producing arrangement suitable for driving a boat by the Magnus effect comprises an elongate tubular envelope mounted for rotation about its longitudinal axis. A drive is provided to rotate...
3448714 FIN AND REVOLVING CYLINDER BIDIRECTIONAL STEERING ACTUATOR  
3439887 WING ROTOR CONTROL APPARATUS  
3262656 Wing rotors  
3140065 High lift and control system for aircraft  
3121544 Safety and high lift system and apparatus for aircraft  
3092354 Aerodynamic system and apparatus  
3071334 Vertical lift aircraft  
3065928 Multiple drive for aircraft having wings provided with transverse flow blowers  
2985406 Aircraft sustained by cylindrical rotors  
2928626 Sustaining airfoil with retractable cylindrical rotor  
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