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7322546 Performance airplane wing with tip tank assembly  
The present development relates to an improved wing having a tip tank assembly. The tip tank assembly is attached to a distal end of an outer wing section. The tip tank assembly includes a tank, a...
7316371 Method and device for steepening a landing approach of an aircraft  
To control and particularly steepen the landing glide path of an aircraft, a respective aerodynamic component mounted on each wingtip includes a fixed plane member and a pivotable control element...
7100875 Apparatus and method for the control of trailing wake flows  
A system and method for dissipating vortices that form at the wingtips on aircraft and from other airfoils. A jet air stream is discharged in a location at or proximate to the outer end portion of...
7100867 Lifting foil  
A lifting foil for an aircraft, a hydrofoil or the like having a pair of courses or wings. Vortex losses due to spanwise fluid flow are substantially reduced by joining the tips of the courses with...
6892988 Cylindrical wing tip with helical slot  
A device having the form of a cylindrical spiral cavity and/or incorporating a helicoidal slot, making it possible to reduce induced drag and marginal swirl (vortex) and increase drag/lift ratio....
6722615 Wing tip extension for a wing  
The present invention relates to a wing tip extension ( 7 ) for a wing, having an upper and a lower surface ( 10 and 11 ) and a leading edge and a trailing edge ( 12 and 13 ), the geometries of...
6589017 Aircraft airfoil assembly and method  
An aircraft rotatable airfoil assembly in the nature of a helicopter machine and having two airfoils diametrically disposed about an axis of rotation. Air baffles are mounted on the radially inner...
6497600 Automatic pilot system for model aircraft  
An automatic pilot system for a model airplane comprising one or more flexible control elements. When installed on a vertical stabilizer of the airplane, a flexible control element acts as an...
6484968 Aircraft with elliptical winglets  
An aircraft with swept back wings has winglets ( 202 ) at the outer ends of its wings ( 200 ). The winglets ( 202 ) curve upwardly as they extend outwardly from their intersection ( 204 ) with the...
6467732 Rotary blade of helicopter  
A base wing 11 , as attached at its root end portion to the rotor head of a rotational drive unit, is provided with a front wing 12 and a rear wing 13 having substantially equal spans. The...
6431499 Wing comprising a distal wing grid  
In a wing with a main wing part ( 1 ) and a drag-reducing wing grid arranged at a distal end of the main wing part, a grid includes at least two winglets ( 2 ) staggered in parallel and with an...
6345790 Subsonic aircraft with backswept wings and movable wing tip winglets  
A subsonic aircraft having backswept lifting wings is equipped with individually rotatable winglets at the wing tips thereof, in order to reduce drag during cruise flight, to minimize the dangers...
6260809 Ovate loop for rotary-wing blades  
Blade vortex interaction (BVI) noise, associated with the operation of aircraft having rotary-wing blades, is abated by the inclusion of an ovate loop tip (20) at the tip portion (16) of each of...
6171056 Technique for providing a signal for controlling blade vortex interaction noise of a rotorcraft  
A technique for providing a signal representative of blade vortex interaction (BVI) noise for a multi-blade rotorcraft. The fluid (air) pressure at one, two, or more predetermined locations on a...
6161797 Method and apparatus for reducing airplane noise  
A modification of a 727 airplane, including a change in wing profile, to affect flight characteristics and the engines to lessen noise, such that the takeoff and landing procedure is modified so...
6042059 System and method of vortex wake control using vortex leveraging  
This invention relates to a system and method for reducing the primary vortex wake structure generated by a lifting body mounted on an object moving through a fluid. This is achieved by first,...
5823480 Wing with a wing grid as the end section  
A wing with a wing span (b) has a main part (1), which has a substantially closed surface with respect to the flow (v) and is provided at its free end with an end section in the form of a wing...
5806807 Airfoil vortex attenuation apparatus and method  
A vortex attenuating airfoil (24) includes an outboard area (28). The outboard area includes a deflector (40) which is disposed in the inboard direction from a tip (30). An air passage (46) extends...
5738298 Tip fence for reduction of lift-generated airframe noise  
The present invention is directed toward a unique lift-generated noise reduction apparatus. This apparatus includes a plurality of tip fences that are secured to the trailing and leading assemblies...
5496001 T-38 aircraft modified with an F-5 wing  
A T-38 trainer aircraft that is modified to have the wings of an F-5 fighter aircraft. The F-5 wings have leading edge flaps which increase aircraft maneuverability and allow the plane to be landed...
5435502 Flying and road vehicle  
A vehicle will serve as a road vehicle, as well as can be flown. The vehicle has a fuselage and a wing with a fixed span. The aspect ratio is low, allowing the vehicle to be operated on a normal...
5407153 System for increasing airplane fuel mileage and airplane wing modification kit  
A system is provided which enables winglets to be added to existing wing structures of 727 model aircraft to increase fuel efficiency while providing a means for redistributing additional loads...
5348253 Blended winglet  
The blended winglet is a wing-like device comprising a blended lifting surface attachable to each airplane wing tip so as to achieve minimum induced drag for a given surface size. The device...
5275358 Wing/winglet configurations and methods for aircraft  
A wing/winglet configuration, which basically comprises: (a) a wing having upper and lower wing surfaces, a wing leading edge, a wing trailing edge, and a wing tip; and (b) a winglet having upper...
5213287 Wing modification method and apparatus  
A modification kit for the DeHavilland DH-2 Beaver and the DH-3 Otter aircraft. A replacement leading edge is provided for the wing together with replacement droop wing tips and a wing fence. A...
5156358 Aircraft outboard control  
An outboard control surface for an aircraft. The control surface is operably connected to wing side edges of the aircraft and includes a forward flap and a rearward flap with at least one of the...
5102068 Spiroid-tipped wing  
The spiroid-tipped wing, in its basic form, comprises a wing-like lifting surface and a spiroidal tip device (i.e., spiroid) integrated so as to minimize the induced drag of the wing-spiroid...
4781341 Flying wing aircraft  
An ultralight aircraft having a generally rectangular, swept-back, single-surface wing. The wing, which is formed by fabric mounted on exposed spars and ribs, has a reflex profile to provide pitch...
4776542 Aircraft stall-spin entry deterrent system  
A system for deterring subsonic airplane stall-spin entry wherein a highly swept wing tip mounted lifting surface panel 18 (FIGS. 1-3) is attached to the tip of a main wing panel 14 and provides a...
4739957 Strake fence flap  
The strake fence flap is a device which may be tailored to the aircraft to augment the low-speed lift of canard-configured general aviation aircraft with little or no longitudinal trim change and...
4722499 Auxiliary wing tips for an aircraft  
Auxiliary winglets or control surfaces for aircraft wings are tiltable ab an axis extending in the flight direction and about an axis extending substantially perpendicularly to the flight...
4714215 Aircraft wing and winglet arrangement  
An aircraft wing has a winglet extending from the tip to reduce drag and thereby improve the efficiency of the aircraft. Hitherto such winglets, although they have succeeded in reducing drag, they...
4674709 Airframe design  
This invention relates to aircraft designs with substantial trim drag reduction while maintaining commercially feasible low parasitic and induced drag. The stable or control configured aircraft...
4671473 Airfoil  
This invention is an improved airfoil in the form of a plurality of controllable winglets which are used to reduce the stall characteristics of wing tips and to give them better lift capabilities....
4598885 Airplane airframe  
An airplane airframe having wings connected to the fuselage by spars of smaller cross section than the wings. Movable winglets may be provided at the outboard ends of the wings. The fuselage may be...
4595160 Wing tip airfoils  
The subject invention relates to a new and improved airfoil design. More particularly, an airfoil design is disclosed which improves efficiency by taking advantage of the vortex created at the wing...
4541593 Aircraft providing with a lift structure incorporating multiple superposed wings  
The invention relates to an aircraft provided on either side of its fuselage with at least one lift structure constituted by at least two wings whose distal ends are connected either to each other...
4478380 Wing tip vortices suppressor  
A wing tip vortices suppressor utilizing a scoop having an inlet at the lower, leading surface of the wing and an outlet at the upper, trailing surface to reduce turbulence causing pressure...
4457479 Winglets for aircraft wing tips  
A wing assembly in an aircraft includes a pair of wings and a winglet situated at each of the wing tips, the winglets or portions thereof being movably mounted. In order to avoid the need for...
4382569 Wing tip flow control  
A capture device at the tip of a fluid foil such that when the foil has relative motion with respect to fluid in which it is immersed the capture device intercepts a quantity of the crossflow which...
4377267 Vortex tranquilizer  
The purpose of this invention is to influence the behavior of the airflow near the wingtip, where the higher pressure air from below the wing swirls up over the end of the wing, to arrive at the...
D259554 Aircraft  
4272043 Fluid stream deflecting members for aircraft bodies or the like  
Devices to reduce the drag experienced by aircraft and other travelling bodies, comprising sail-like members mounted on the body surface. These members project into the local stream that forms...
4247063 Flight control mechanism for airplanes  
Retractable wing-tip mounted vanes are actuated from the normal cockpit controls of an airplane to provide both roll control and direct lift control. When not required, these devices retract into...
4245804 Minimum drag wing configuration for aircraft operating at transonic speeds  
A wing extension or tip fin is disclosed wherein the tip fin is joined to an aircraft wing to form a nonplanar wing configuration which minimizes induced drag during both low speed and high speed...
4240597 Wing with improved leading edge for aircraft  
A thin, high performance swept wing of the tapered type with an improved leading edge characterized by a first portion that extends from near the wing root at a fixed radius to a transition point...
4238094 Aircraft wing fence  
An improved fluid fence which reduces drag on solid objects moving through a fluid environment and an airfoil or aircraft wing structure having an improved open fence on its surface improving the...
4190219 Vortex diffuser  
The vortex system behind an aircraft is responsible for more than half of the aircraft drag in cruise flight and sometimes more in other flight conditions. The purpose of the vortex diffuser is to...
4093160 Free vortex aircraft  
An aircraft which produces a free vortex to provide the lift for takeoff and landing procedures has a single centrally mounted engine which supplies both the forward thrust to the aircraft and the...
3845918 VORTEX DISSIPATOR  
A vortex dissipator for the tip of an airfoil or hydrofoil lifting surface is formed as a fixed plate secured to the tip and aligned with the free stream direction. The plate extends forward from...
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