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8181910 Method, apparatus, and system for deflecting air approaching a wing  
Fluid having a velocity approaching a surface having a leading edge may be deflected. An electric field may be projected ahead of the leading edge of the surface to ionize at least some molecules...
8177170 Aircraft comprising a central fairing that adjusts the pressure on the wing structures by means of local geometric deformations  
An aircraft including: a fuselage and two wings to which engine nacelles are attached and that are each connected laterally to the fuselage, one on each side thereof, by a central fairing. The...
8172185 Establishment of laminar boundary layer flow on an aerofoil body  
In order to establish laminar flow on the attachment line (18) of an aerofoil body, a duct entrance (27) is provided on the leading edge of the aerofoil body for receiving spanwise boundary layer...
8172181 Fuel range for an aircraft  
An apparatus and method for improving the fuel range of an aircraft are provided. The aircraft includes a fuselage with a front windshield, and an external skin providing a top cover for a cockpit...
8167248 Aircraft comprising a device for reducing the induced drag  
An aircraft including a longitudinal fuselage, at least two lateral wings connected symmetrically one on each side of the fuselage and at least one engine pod fixed to each lateral wing via an...
8162260 Monomolecular carbon-based film for forming lubricious surface on aircraft parts  
A monomolecular carbon-based film can be placed on an aircraft part, such as the leading edge designed to directly impinge against air during flight, ascent or descent, in order to form a smooth...
8157216 Methods and apparatus for an asymmetrical fairing  
A fairing includes three sections: an aft section, a middle section, and a nose section. The aft section includes a first surface having a generally constant conic angle (i.e., a “boat-tail a...
8146865 Leading edge for aircraft made of reinforced composite material  
The present invention relates to a leading edge (1) for aircraft made of composite material, characterized in that it comprises on its inner face a metallic-type reinforcement (2) firmly adhered to...
8141811 Shock wave modification method and system  
A shock wave in a gas is modified by emitting energy to form an extended path in the gas; heating gas along the path to form a volume of heated gas expanding outwardly from the path; and directing...
8136757 Wing and method for reducing effects of propeller airflow on lift distribution  
A wing for an aircraft includes a non-balanced lift gradient because as a result of at least one propeller slipstream flowing onto the wing the induced drag of the wing is increased. To reduce the...
8128037 Apparatus and method for passive purging of micro-perforated aerodynamic surfaces  
A purging system for a laminar flow control system comprises an air scoop and a diffuser fluidly connected thereto. The air scoop is disposable into an external flow of an external atmosphere. The...
8128035 Winglets with recessed surfaces, and associated systems and methods  
Winglets with recessed surfaces, and associated systems and methods are disclosed. A system in accordance with a particular embodiment includes a wing having an inboard portion and an outboard...
8128029 Ventral fairing for an aircraft  
Ventral fairing for an aircraft provided between a left wing and a right wing, which comprises a lower central section of convex transverse cross-section located between the left lower surface of...
8118252 Rear lower aerodynamic fairing for the attachment device of an aircraft engine  
A rear lower aerodynamic fairing for an attachment device for an aircraft engine, including two side panels assembled together with transverse stiffening inner ribs spaced apart from each other...
8113466 System and method for drag reduction  
A system and method for drag reduction allows thrust output, fuel efficiency or both to be maximized. Specifically, a rear portion of a body or motor vehicle may be modified to increase thrust...
8096507 Methods and apparatus for optical propagation improvement system  
An aircraft turret and fairing assembly for facilitating transmission of a directed energy beam from a directed energy device includes a turret section for directing an energy beam. The assembly...
8091824 Inverted airfoil pylon for an aircraft  
An aircraft including a wing and a pylon, wherein the pylon provides an airfoil inverted for an airfoil of the wing, and an improvement and method for improved flight dynamics for 20 and 30 Series...
8087617 Retractable nacelle chine  
A retractable chine assembly includes at least one chine which is hingebly mountable to a surface such as of an aircraft having a wing. The chine is preferably configured to be movable between...
8087606 Drag-reduction, propulsion, and lift generating system  
A motion generating system for propelling and/or lifting a craft exploiting explosive and implosive processes, whereby a propulsive or lifting force on the craft arises from two sources: generation...
8083183 Air discharge device for an aircraft  
An air discharge device includes a grid that is connected to an aerodynamic surface of an aircraft. The grid includes a number of openings delimited by intermediate zones that are arranged in the...
8083171 Supersonic aircraft for reducing sonic boom effects at ground level  
Method for configuring and operating an aircraft for minimizing sonic boom effects at ground level during supersonic flight of the aircraft. The method includes configuring an aircraft and flying...
8074938 Active control of a body by altering surface drag  
A system and method is described generally for deforming a first surface of a body and deforming a second surface of a body to alter a fluid flow in order to change the characteristics of the fluid...
8066221 Aircraft ventral fairing partition wall and aircraft equipped with a ventral fairing  
The invention concerns a wall (10) of vertical partitioning for a ventral cowling of an aircraft including a plurality of vertical panels (11, 12, 12′, 13, 13′), each panel being linked to an adj...
8056850 Particle-filled wing-to-body fairing and method for reducing fairing vibrations  
A wing-to-body fairing for reducing noise due to wing-to-body fairing vibrations in an aircraft, spacecraft, or vehicle may include a honeycomb center having a cavity which is at least partially...
8016245 Dynamic bumps for drag reduction at transonic-supersonic speeds  
A system for reducing overall drag of a mobile platform includes a surface on which an airflow forms a boundary layer and a generally normal shockwave. The airflow is at a first velocity that is...
8006939 Over-wing traveling-wave axial flow plasma accelerator  
A method to manipulate a fluid flow over a surface is provided. This method may be used to reduce drag, improve the lift to drag (L/D) ratio, attach fluid flow, or reduce flow noise at the surface....
7967258 Dual bimorph synthetic pulsator  
The present invention provides a system and method for actively manipulating fluid flow over a surface using synthetic pulsators. Synthetic pulsators produce pulsed jet operable to manipulate the...
7967252 Fairing and airfoil apparatus and method  
An airfoil for use on a high speed, jet powered airborne mobile platform and secured to an exterior surface of said mobile platform at a location so as to be disposed within a boundary layer during...
7967253 Antenna fairing and method  
A fairing suitable for enclosing a component mounted on an exterior surface of a mobile platform, and more particularly on an outer surface of a high speed mobile platform such as a jet aircraft or...
7954767 Laminar flow surfaces with selected roughness distributions, and associated methods  
Laminar flow surfaces with selected roughness distributions, and associated methods are disclosed. A representative method for designing an airfoil includes selecting a parameter that includes a...
7946535 Highly efficient supersonic laminar flow wing  
An improved supersonic laminar flow wing structure, on a supersonic aircraft, having one or more of the following: a strake extending forwardly of the wing inboard extent, a raked wing tip, a...
7866608 Device for controlling a vortex trail generated by the oblong element of an aircraft bearing surface  
A device for controlling a vortex trail generated by an oblong element of an aircraft bearing surface includes a control component arranged on a fixing element of the oblong element and on a...
7850119 Sealing system for the gap existing between the fuselage and the elevator of the orientable horizontal stabiliser of an aircraft, extended with an aerodynamic fairing for sealing of the opening existing between the fuselage and the orientable horizontal stabiliser  
Sealing system for the gap (2) between the fuselage (3) and the elevator (4) of the orientable horizontal stabiliser (5) of an aircraft, extended with an aerodynamic fairing (8) for sealing of the...
7850126 Laminar flow surfaces with selected roughness distributions, and associated methods  
Laminar flow surfaces with selected roughness distributions, and associated methods are disclosed. A representative method for designing an airfoil includes selecting a parameter that includes a...
7815147 Reinforced cover for cut-outs in an aerodynamic contour  
Reinforced cover for cut-outs in an aerodynamic contour of a vehicle, with a first attachment section 1a attachable to a structural element (2,5) of the vehicle (11); a second elastic section 1c...
7798448 Flow-driven oscillating acoustic attenuator  
An apparatus for attenuating acoustic resonance generated by flow over a cavity in a surface comprises a plurality of flat flaps proximate to an upstream edge of the cavity. The flaps are disposed...
7784737 Drag reduction fairing  
A vehicle including a body having an exterior surface and a protrusion extending outward from the surface. The vehicle further includes a fairing mounted on the surface directly adjacent and behind...
7775480 Flying object for transonic or supersonic velocities  
The invention relates to a flying object being moved with transonic or supersonic velocities. Known flying objects comprise so called “aerospikes” used for reducing the wave drag and improving the...
7755519 Ultrasonic communication and drag modification  
A vehicle traveling through an environmental media such as air experiences drag. The drag is actively modulated by energy beams which may either increase or decrease the drag. The energy beams may...
7744034 Translating flap drive door  
In one embodiment, an apparatus is provided for covering and uncovering a flap opening in an aircraft. The apparatus comprises a door member, a torque tube roller member, at least one roller...
7735782 Flow surface for a three-dimensional boundary-layer flow, especially on a swept wing, a swept tail plane or a rotor  
A flow surface (16), e.g. on a swept aircraft wing, has a three-dimensional boundary-layer flow. The surface is defined by a spanwise direction (z) and a chordwise direction (x). In or on the flow...
7703479 Plasma actuator  
An actuator including a first and second conductor on a dielectric, wherein application of a voltage to the first conductor creates a plasma, thereby modifying a fluid flow in communication with...
7694915 Covering device for a hinge of an aircraft  
Hinges, in particular in doors of aircraft, have poor aerodynamics. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a covering device for a hinge of an aircraft is provided with a flexible...
7686245 Rotary aircraft download alleviation apparatus and methods  
Apparatus and methods for alleviating rotary aircraft downloads are disclosed. In one embodiment, a rotary aircraft includes an airframe assembly having a fuselage, at least one rotor assembly...
7669800 Reinforced cover for gaps in an aerodynamic contour  
Reinforced cover for gaps in an aerodynamic contour of a vehicle, with a first attachment section 1a attachable to a structural element 2, 5 of the vehicle 11, on a first axial plane I; a second...
7651053 Aerodynamic airflow deflector for aircraft landing gear  
An aerodynamic airflow deflecting device for a landing gear retracting into a housing of an aircraft, comprising at least one element for closing the housing that is, through the action of a...
7644892 Blended winglet  
A capped winglet comprising a helical portion having a smooth vertical curvature of 180°±approximately 20° from the plane of the unbounded end of a wing, and a generally planar cap contiguous wi...
7621480 De-rotation system for a counter-rotating, coaxial rotor hub shaft fairing  
A rotor hub fairing system includes an upper hub fairing, a lower hub fairing and a shaft fairing therebetween. The rotor hub fairing system is attached to the counter-rotating, coaxial rotor...
7607607 De-rotation system suitable for use with a shaft fairing system  
A de-rotation system includes a first ring gear defined about an axis of rotation, a second ring gear defined about the axis of rotation and a gear set in meshing engagement with the first ring...
7604201 Nacelle drag reduction device for a turbofan gas turbine engine  
The nacelle drag reduction device comprises a substantially circular and axis symmetrical external airfoil concentric with a aft section of the nacelle and located outside a propulsive jet zone...
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