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7427047 Powered aircraft including inflatable and rotatable bodies exhibiting a circular cross-section perpendicular to its rotation axis and in order to generate a lift force  
A lift force generating aircraft having an engine and a thrust force producing device. A pair of elongated and rotating bodies, an axial centerline through the bodies extending in a direction...
7344106 Vertical take-off and landing aircraft  
A vertical take-off and landing aircraft has an airframe body that defines a loop-shaped path of travel for a plurality of movably-mounted wings that are transversely disposed relative to a...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
5954295 Lift generation by counter-rotating line vortices  
A mechanism and method for generating lift with the Bernoulli Effect. A pair of cylindrical impellers create a pair of counter rotating forced linear vortices. Fast moving, low pressure air...
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...
4903917 Projectile with rotatable stabilizing device  
The invention is concerned with a projectile with a stabilizing device that is depolyable beyond the caliber and that should at least comprise an object rotatable about its axis. The stabilizing...
4657207 Kit for converting a motorcycle to an airborne vehicle  
A kit for converting a motorcycle to an aircraft or airborne vehicle includes a glider type parachute with fore and aft lines for connecting to and supporting a motorcycle, in a balanced position,...
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...
4452007 Horizontal axis rotatory frustum flying toy  
The Horizontal Axis Rotatory Frustum Toy is a catapulted cylinderlike flying-wing glider that rotates horizontally to produce lift and quite slow flight, suitable indoors or out. A rubber band or...
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...
4390148 Rotary wing device  
A rotary wing device adapted to be rotated about its longitudinal axis and to be propelled forwardly with its longitudinal axis having a small upward pitch angle relative to the forward flight...
4051622 Free flying aerodynamic toy with high stability  
A free flying aerodynamic toy that is manually launched and is composed of an elongate air foil having two identical surfaces that are joined to one another symmetrically of the longitudinal axis...
3630470 VERTICAL TAKEOFF AND LANDING VEHICLE  
A vertical takeoff and landing vehicle utilizing the Magnus effect to lift the vehicle vertically through a fluid medium, usually air but conceivably other gaseous atmospheres as well as water. A...
3439887 WING ROTOR CONTROL APPARATUS  
3139936 Helicopter control mechanism  
3071334 Vertical lift aircraft  
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