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7510143 Wing assembly and aircraft  
An aircraft is provided with a wing assembly mounted in a slipstream of a source of propulsion of the aircraft. The aircraft includes a body having a longitudinal axis, a wing assembly carried by...
7441724 System and method for controlling a roll rate of a torsionally-disconnected freewing aircraft  
An aircraft includes a fuselage, and first and second freewings. Each of the first and second freewings is separately mounted to the fuselage and independently freely pivotable about respective...
7419120 Triple-fuselage aircraft and families of aircraft of said type  
A method of air transport includes improved reliability and safety of passengers and cargo transported by an aircraft having three fuselages. The method includes locating a cockpit of the aircraft...
7240878 High wing monoplane aerospace plane based fighter  
The Hypersonic Orbital Fighter and the methods of flying it are disclosed. The Hypersonic Orbital Fighter is characterized by a winged, modified lifting body shape with the forward ventral section...
7073750 Propulsion system for model airplane  
An improved structure and method for powering the flight of a model airplane by positioning the motors and propellers on the back side of the top wings of an airplane using a single or double-deck...
7066428 Unfolding wing for air-launched, low speed air vehicles  
A wing is presented that unfolds in a chordwise direction upon the launch of its aircraft at some velocity as it is projected into the air or launched from a moving craft at altitude. The wing is...
7066426 Multimodal, deployable vehicle  
A multimodal vehicle includes a ground based vehicle with an attached high-capacity airfoil parachute for deployment. The ground based vehicle includes a drive system for use on either land, water...
7048227 Parachute supported aircraft with controlled wing collapse and inflation  
This invention relates to a parachute supported aircraft having a frame and a seat for supporting at least a pilot. A parachute is coupled to the frame by a plurality of riser lines for allowing...
6969026 Aircraft  
The aircraft has a main body 1 and a pair of sub bodies 4 and 5 positioned substantially in parallel with the main body 1 and respectively in both of the left and right sides of the main...
6948681 Automated cargo transportation system  
A modular automated air transport system comprising an unmanned autonomous aircraft having a selectively detachable control systems portion and a structural air frame portion, wherein the...
6923403 Tailed flying wing aircraft  
The “Tailed Flying Wing Aircraft” idea represents new aerodynamic concepts for large high subsonic aircraft. Large high subsonic aircraft based on these new aerodynamic concepts are having a...
6896219 Process and apparatus for noise reduction in multi-engine propeller-driven aircraft  
A process and system for noise reduction in multi-engine propeller-driven aircraft. The parameters of at least two propellers are adjusted with regard to frequency, amplitude, and phase so that the...
6892981 Stealthy duffel bag airplane  
The Duffel Bag Airplane is an inflatable flying wing unmanned airborne vehicle (UAV). The fuselage will house everything but the wings. The wing can be rolled up around the fuselage into a small...
6848650 Ground effect airplane  
An extremely large aircraft which is suitable for overseas cargo transport and which includes a fuselage defining a central storage cavity, a wing assembly defining a pair of wing storage cavities,...
6834832 Aircraft provided with carrying fuselage  
The invention relates to aircrafts, in particular to aircrafts, which are embodied in a passenger, cargo or cargopassenger variants thereby making it possible to improve performance characteristics...
6782346 Aircraft synthesis and systems evaluation method for determining and evaluating electrical power generation and distribution system components  
A system and method for facilitating design and analysis of a selected component, subsystem, system, or structure of an aircraft. In one embodiment the system and method analyzes an aircraft's...
6742741 Unmanned air vehicle and method of flying an unmanned air vehicle  
An unmanned air vehicle includes a singular rear landing gear wheel on the aft end of the fuselage. Port and starboard wings with rear facing propellers are retractable to the aft of the fuselage....
6705567 Tandem wing aircraft and method for manufacturing and operating such aircraft  
An aircraft and associated method of manufacture and operation. The aircraft can include a fuselage having a first portion and a second portion projecting upwardly from the first portion, with the...
6626397 Autonomous flying wing  
An unmanned flying vehicle comprises an autonomous flying wing having at least two wing portions arranged substantially symmetrically about a center portion. Each wing portion is pivotally attached...
6576880 Flyer assembly  
A flyer assembly is adapted for launching with, transit in, and deployment from an artillery shell having a central void region extending along a ballistic shell axis. The flyer assembly includes a...
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...
6550717 Liquid hydrogen stratospheric aircraft  
Disclosed is an aircraft, configured to have a wide range of flight speeds, consuming low levels of power for an extended period of time, while supporting a communications platform with an...
6367738 Aerobatic aircraft  
An improved aerobatic aircraft design having a first engine located in the nose portion of the fuselage and a second engine located in the tail portion of the fuselage. The thrust components of...
6360991 Motorized paraglider with automatic steering system for preventing upset  
A motorized paraglider including a wheeled frame with a steerable nose wheel and a pair of casters arranged in a tricycle configuration. Each of the casters has a trailing wheel and a support...
6341247 Adaptive method to control and optimize aircraft performance  
A measurement-based method to control and optimize the performance of an airborne vehicle. The stability and control of the vehicle is modified to induce a response in the airborne vehicle as...
6273363 Aircraft with a double-T tail assembly  
An aircraft, preferably a large capacity passenger aircraft with two passenger decks, has a double-T tail assembly arranged on its tail section. The double-T tail assembly includes a double fin and...
6138946 Device for lift and to reduce resistance to aircraft advance  
The device for lift and to reduce forward resistance of aircraft consists of a converging input duct of truncated-cone-shaped or truncated-pyramid-shaped, arranged lengthwise inside the fuselage...
6119976 Shoulder launched unmanned reconnaissance system  
A shoulder launched unmanned reconnaissance system for providing overhead visual surveillance of remote targets is disclosed. The present system includes a reconnaissance air vehicle which may be...
6113028 Amphibious aircraft  
An amphibious airplane having an engine assembly mounted at a top center location in the fuselage, and a tail assembly having a horizontal fin in an elevated position so as to be in the propeller...
6098923 Aircraft structure to improve directional stability  
An aircraft structure has an arrangement of aircraft components that provide inherent directional stability for a flight vehicle throughout an angle-of-attack range, even at very high...
6045089 Solar-powered airplane  
A Satellite Weather Modification System (SWMS) uses earth satellites to harness solar energy to modify the thermodynamics and composition of the earth's atmosphere. SWMS has three subsystems: The...
5992792 Aircraft with jet flap propulsion  
In an aircraft (1) according to the invention the engine drives a blower and the compressed air is used to increase the lift of the wing (18) and the canard (22) using jet flap propulsion. The...
5979824 Stabilizer fins-inverted for aircraft  
An aircraft of the type having twin booms (14): which connects the main wing (28) with two fin stabilizers (16) and an optional trim stabilizer (22) articulate to change aircraft direction and...
5901924 Speed enhanced powered parachute  
A powered parachute or pendulum flying machine which includes a mechanism for shortening the chord length of the parachute wing, a mechanism for shortening the distance between the upper and lower...
5899409 Large dimension aircraft  
A large transport aircraft, for more than 400 passengers, with a first wing (3) extending from an intermediate point on the fuselage (1) and a second wing (4) extending from the rear of the...
5884863 Method and apparatus for deploying a wing  
The deployable wing of the present invention comprises an internal structure having diverging leading edge spars attached to a keel spar and cross spars to form a delta wing configuration. This...
5810284 Aircraft  
This disclosure provides a solar rechargeable aircraft that is inexpensive to produce, is steerable, and can remain airborne almost indefinitely. The preferred aircraft is a span-loaded flying...
5620153 Light aircraft with inflatable parachute wing propelled by a ducted propeller  
A para-plane (parachute or parafoil airplane), ultralight, or the like is provided with a ducted propeller or fan to increase efficiency of the powerplant, thus reducing the size of the powerplant...
5575438 Unmanned VTOL ground surveillance vehicle  
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has a toroidal fuselage and a rotor assembly having a pair of counter-rotating rotors secured in fixed coaxial combination with the toroidal fuselage to provide a...
5520355 Three wing circular planform body  
An improved circular planform wing generally comprised of three different shaped wing sections which combine to form a peripherally circular planform body with a substantial central opening as...
5503352 Light-duty box-wing aeroplane  
A light-duty multipurpose aeroplane has a fuselage having a cabin at its center, a tail portion with a pusher propeller in a ring and a front portion with an all-swiveling horizontal "canard" type...
5503350 Microwave-powered aircraft  
An unmanned, remotely controlled microwave-powered aircraft for use as a stationary communications platform. The aircraft is generally a flying wing with a large, flat inner wing having a rectenna...
5435504 Aircraft  
An aircraft has an airframe including a fuselage having major structural members made of a composite material. The airframe also includes a sweepforward main wing mounted on top of the fuselage and...
5224665 Split span vee tail control arrangement for air vehicle  
An active flight control arrangement for an air vehicle that includes a split span vee fin tail control arrangement whereby inner and outer spans of each fin are independently operable to provide...
5160100 Airfoil canopy aircraft  
An aircraft comprises a vehicle (1) suspended in flight by a steering control rod (68) pivotally mounted to the body of the vehicle and having outer ends (12, 14) connected to the lower ends of...
5097892 Air/liquid heat exchanger with ram pressure evaporative cooling  
An air/liquid heat exchanger for aircraft having ram pressure powered evaporative cooling.
5082204 All wing aircraft  
An all-wing aircraft is disclosed that has novel foreplane and depending aftplane, a center wing section and outer wing panel flying surfaces which cooperate aerodynamically to eliminate the need...
5044576 Parawing with an automatic canopy withdrawing mechanism  
Disclosed is a parawing with an automatic canopy withdrawing mechanism having a canopy, a frame to which the canopy is fastened and on which a pilot can be carried, a propeller mounted on the...
5029774 Glider  
A glider, comprising a tubular body open at each end and having a leading edge and a trailing edge, has a two-ring frame assembly disposed about the perimeter of the leading edge to provide body...
4934630 Powered airfoil canopy aircraft  
Load lines connect chordwise spaced portions of a ram air inflated, airfoil canopy to spaced anchors connected to a pilot supporting vehicle frame on which a forward thrust producing unit is...
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