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7294036 |
Flying disc
A circular planform wing includes a contiguous thin central plate having top and bottom surfaces. An outer annular rim encompasses the central plate. The rim has a lower edge defining a lower plane...
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7204672 |
Multi-modal forced vortex device
A multi-modal forced vortex device is described having a top plate and a side wall creating a partially enclosed volume. The top plate includes one or more adjustable fluid openings to permit, or...
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7147183 |
Lift system for an aerial crane and propulsion system for a vehicle
The present invention provides an improved lift system for an aerial crane incorporating a wing, coanda and curved surface. The arrangement of the wing, coanda and curved surface use and induce...
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7093788 |
Rotating flying wing aircraft and control system
A rotating wing aircraft has a rotating fuselage and wings. The aircraft is configured to rotate with the air passing over the wings because of the rotation providing the lift needed to keep the...
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7032859 |
Counter rotating ducted fan having a permanent magnet drive
A counter rotating ducted fan having a permanent magnet drive. comprising a ducted housing having an iron core stator and a pair of counter rotating propeller blades rotationally mounted on a...
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6976653 |
VTOL micro-aircraft
VTOL micro-aircraft comprising a first and a second ducted rotor mutually aligned and distanced according to a common axis and whose propellers are driven in rotation in mutually opposite...
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6969027 |
Vertical takeoff and landing apparatus
A vertical takeoff and landing apparatus is excellent in the maneuverability and postural stability of its airframe, serves to protect a pilot from an impact when landing, and can make extremely...
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6932296 |
Cycloidal VTOL UAV
A system and method for moving an aerial vehicle along a flight path includes rotatable hubs mounted on opposite sides of the vehicle. Elongated airfoils are mounted on the hubs parallel to a...
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6845942 |
Omni-directional air vehicle personal transportation system
An omni-directional air vehicle having a pod with a connected turbofan system, the pod has a body that contains a power source for generating electrical power and a ducted fan with spherical...
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6837457 |
Aircraft rotor and aircraft
An aircraft rotor and an aircraft which aircraft has a body and a rotor arranged to it, the rotor having at least two blades. The rotor is arranged to rotate around a substantially vertical axis....
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6834829 |
Vertical lift aircraft having an enclosed rotary wing
A vertical lift aircraft comprises a cabin mounted to an enclosed rotary wing which provides vertical lift for the aircraft. The rotary wing includes an annular housing and a main rotor blade...
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6691949 |
Vertical takeoff and landing aerial vehicle
An aerial vehicle including a toroidal fuselage having a longitudinal axis, and a duct extending along the longitudinal axis between a leading edge and a trailing edge of the fuselage, first and...
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6672539 |
Power generation system
A power generation system comprises an internal housing. The housing has a top portion, a bottom portion and a peripheral sidewall. An external housing is provided. The housing is coupled to and...
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6669138 |
Rotary aeronautical lifting cell
A rotary aeronautical lifting cell having an annular airfoil, airfoil dividers, and a propulsion mechanism. The airfoil dividers separate the annular airfoil into airfoil sections arranged in...
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6666403 |
Force-producing apparatus
A force-generating device employing a flared body and a surrounding shroud to define a duct of axially diminishing flow area defining a nozzle for accelerating and directing the discharge of a...
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6575402 |
Cooling system for a hybrid aircraft
A cooling system for a hybrid aircraft includes an inlet which extends through the body to communicate airflow to a powerplant subsystem and out through an exhaust within a rotor duct. In a hover...
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6575401 |
Vertical-lift and horizontal flight aircraft
A vertical-lift and horizontal flight aircraft, which can be operated in a horizontal flight mode, as soon as ground clearance is made. And, because of its unique design is very stable in flight,...
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6572053 |
Flying vehicle of inverse sustentation (FVIS)
The Flying Vehicle of Inverse Sustentation (FVIS) is an air transport unit for passengers and cargo. The vehicle comprises a main flow generating unit to burn a mixture of fuel and air and produce...
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6565038 |
Supersonic propellers for aircrafts
The present invention provides one pair or two pairs of horizontal propellers incorporated on the two opposite sides of an aircraft, which propellers by their rotating external blades create...
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6464552 |
Model helicopter
A model helicopter includes a body and an engine mounted in the body. A rotor is connected to the engine through a substantially vertical primary shaft. A radial fan cools the engine while a...
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6450446 |
Counter rotating circular wing for aircraft
The present invention herein is a disc shaped wing comprised two disc segments, an inner disc assembly and an outer disc assembly, that counter-rotate to enable vertical take off and landing. The...
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6450445 |
Stabilizing control apparatus for robtic or remotely controlled flying platform
A robotic or remotely controlled flying platform ( 10 ) with reduced drag stabilizing control apparatus constructed having an air duct ( 12 ) with an air intake ( 14 ) on the top and an exhaust (...
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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...
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6398159 |
Arial disk
An aircraft comprising a body and a plurality of disks rotatably coupled to the body. The disks may be configured to (i) rotate in the same or different directions, (ii) rotate at similar and/or...
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6382560 |
High speed vertical take-off and land aircraft
A high-speed vertical take-off and land (HSVTOL) aircraft includes a disk-shaped fuselage wit a rotatable fan having a nozzle ring driven by hot jet gasses and fan air from jet engines. Feed ducts...
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6382557 |
Permanently rotating free aerostat mobile in radial translation relative to ambient air
The invention concerns a free lighter-than-air aerostat comprising a structure ( 1, 3, 4, 5 ) symmetrical relative to a main axis ( 2 ), at least one main sealed pressurized chamber ( 16 ), one or...
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6371406 |
Progressive 3-axis multi-variable propulsion vectoring aerial and spacecraft vehicle
The present embodiments and associated methods provide for a progressive 3-axis multi-variable propulsion vectoring aerial and spaceborne vehicle. One embodiment of the vehicle is comprised of top...
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6308912 |
Rotorcraft
An aircraft having a frame (1) and at least a rotor (2a, 2b) for providing lift for the aircraft. The aircraft comprises elements for accommodation purposes. Furthermore, solar cells (5) are...
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6270038 |
Unmanned aerial vehicle with counter-rotating ducted rotors and shrouded pusher-prop
An unmanned aerial vehicle that includes a fuselage with a partial toroidal forward portion, and an aft portion. A duct is formed through the fuselage and extends from the top to the bottom of the...
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6270036 |
Blown air lift generating rotating airfoil aircraft
A rotating airfoil aircraft utilizing blown air from a centrifugal fan located at its center to produce lift by causing airflow to travel over the upper surface of the airfoil and outwardly and...
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6254032 |
Aircraft and method for operating an aircraft
The aircraft comprises a central cabin, which is located in the center of a circular wing. Several pivotal electric drive units are arranged in a gap between the central cabin and the circular...
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6073881 |
Aerodynamic lift apparatus
A lift apparatus using the method of blowing air over the upper surface of the apparatus to generate lift by virtue of the balance of outside pressures against the body of the apparatus. It does...
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6053451 |
Remote-control flight vehicle structure
A remote-control flight vehicle structure includes an inner housing fixedly mounted, an outer housing rotatably mounted on the inner housing along a vertical axis thereof, an annular wing fixedly...
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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...
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6016991 |
Evacuated rotating envelope aircraft
An aircraft utilizes a buoyant evacuated rotating envelope to provide at least a portion of the lift required. The rotating envelope may be in the form of a disk, cylinder or other suitable shape....
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5881970 |
Levity aircraft design
An aircraft with automated means to transport. Spherical or one of its segments, without airfoils for lift or guidance. Means for flight are housed within the aircraft. The outer-most sureface is...
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5873545 |
Combined flying machine
A combined flying machine comprises a fuselage (1) in the form of a central hick wing with a vertical open tunnel (2), in which there is mounted a lifting rotor (4). Said machine is also provided...
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5836543 |
Discus-shaped aerodyne vehicle for extremely high velocities
A discus-shaped aircraft is provided with a peripheral jet arrangement for generating lift and, in the bottom of the aircraft, at least one rocket engine supplied with silicon hydride and...
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5836542 |
Flying craft and a thruster engine suitable for use in such a craft
A flying craft (14) has a dish shaped body (18, 20, 21) with a convex upper surface (18) to provide lift. Engine means (1) in the form of a jet or rocket engine is housed in the body at the rear,...
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5829714 |
Aerolift mechanism
A free movement, lift mechanism employing a spinning disc utilizing Bernoulli's Theorem and the derivative Coanda and Couette effects augmented by centrifugal force. Lift control is provided by...
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5765776 |
Omnidirectional and controllable wing using fluid ejection
A vehicular lift wing having a Coanda edge perimeter, is provided with a zle slot formation from which fluid ejection is directed tangentially from the full Coanda edge perimeter during translation...
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5746390 |
Air-land vehicle with ducted fan vanes providing improved performance
A ducted fan 20 provides lift to a flying vehicle 10. The ducted fan includes direction control vanes (1, 2, 3, 4) for controlling torques applied to the vehicle, and also includes lift negation...
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5676334 |
Cyclic minimizer through alignment of the center of gravity and direction of flight vectors
Apparatus and method for controlling an unmanned generally aerodynamically symmetric aircraft includes detecting the presence of misalignment between the horizontal component of the center of...
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5653404 |
Disc-shaped submersible aircraft
An aircraft of disc-shaped configuration provides the capability of vertical take-off and landing; straight horizontal flight; and three-dimensional maneuverability in the air by means of a...
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5595358 |
Multipurpose airborne vehicle
The present invention relates in general to aeronautical engineering and concerns specifically transport vehicles for transportation of liquid and loose cargoes. The invention provides an airborne...
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5507453 |
Gyro stabilized vectored thrust vertical takeoff or landing aircraft
The thrust director assembly may include a thrust director cone with its apex oriented into the fan airstream and a larger thrust vectoring ring concentric with the director cone. The thrust...
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5503351 |
Circular wing aircraft
A circular wing aircraft in the form of a helicopter comprising a fuselage and a circular wing assembly. A structure is for mounting the circular wing assembly above the fuselage in a stationary...
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5421538 |
VTOL aircraft
A vertical takeoff and landing heavier-than-air aircraft that includes a gyroscopic airfoil in the airstream of a ducted fan to cause vertical lift to the aircraft. The gyroscopic foil is both...
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5419513 |
Ancillary aerodynamic structures for an unmanned aerial vehicle having ducted, coaxial counter-rotating rotors
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) having a toroidal fuselage and a rotor assembly including counter-rotating rotors coaxially mounted with respect to the toroidal fuselage incorporates ancillary...
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5383810 |
Remote control flying model spaceship
A model spaceship having a tubular propulsion duct (1) with fan (25) to which a circular wing (2) is attached at a top-forward position and pod wings (3,4) positioned at each opposite top-side...
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