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7475848 Wing employing leading edge flaps and winglets to achieve improved aerodynamic performance  
A wing for use on a supersonic aircraft that includes an inboard section a central section of the wing outboard of the inboard portion, and an outboard section. The outboard section can be a...
7467762 Advanced unmanned aerial vehicle system  
An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) system that couples the speed and responsiveness of a shoulder-launched rocket with the stable, slow-moving aerial platform of a parafoil is disclosed. The unique...
7422051 System and method for using a flexible composite surface for pressure-drop free heat transfer enhancement and flow drag reduction  
A flexible composite sheet (FCS) comprising a membrane, a substrate coupled to the membrane, and a plurality of ridges coupled between the membrane and the substrate, wherein a vibratory motion is...
7410133 Miniature trailing edge effector for aerodynamic control  
Improved miniature trailing edge effectors for aerodynamic control are provided. Three types of devices having aerodynamic housings integrated to the trailing edge of an aerodynamic shape are...
7185851 Inflatable aerodynamic wing and method  
An inflatable structure constructed of flexible material that can occupy a minimal volume when in a deflated and stored condition as compared to its fully inflated and deployed configuration, has...
7093792 Laminar-flow airfoil  
An upper wing surface of a laminar-flow airfoil for decreasing an undesirable head-lowering pitching moment around an aerodynamic center of the airfoil. The upper wing surface includes: a convex...
7065957 Segmented mixing device for jet engines and aircraft  
Disclosed is a means for reducing jet engine exhaust noise wherein mixing is enhanced between adjacent exhaust flows and between exhaust flow and free-stream flow. Also disclosed is a means for...
7048228 Slotted aircraft wing  
An aircraft wing includes a leading airfoil element and a trailing airfoil element. At least one slot is defined by the wing during at least one transonic condition of the wing. The slot may either...
7032864 Wing with inflatable struts  
An aerodynamic wing formed by a flexible canopy with integrated inflatable, elastically deformable members integrated into the lifting surface. Preferably, the elastically deformable member extends...
7007889 Flexible airfoils and method  
An airfoil for use in kites, movable wing aircraft and fixed wing aircraft has a straight spar inserted into a sleeve in the arcuate leading edge of a flexible wing panel. The resultant forces on...
7004428 Lift and twist control using trailing edge control surfaces on supersonic laminar flow wings  
An aircraft includes a fuselage, thin supersonic wings on the fuselage, there being trailing edge flaps carried by the wings, the flaps configured to provide flap deflection to simultaneously...
6905092 Laminar-flow airfoil  
An airfoil having a fore airfoil element, an aft airfoil element, and a slot region in between them. These elements induce laminar flow over substantially all of the fore airfoil element and also...
6834830 Main wing structure  
A main wing structure comprises at least a leading edge structure and a wing central structure coupled to each other, and has a particular laminar-flow airfoil. The laminar-flow airfoil includes an...
6802474 Advanced high turning compressor airfoils  
In a high turning airfoil capable of being suitably applied to each of blades constituting a blade row of an axial flow-type compressor, both of an intrados generating a positive pressure and an...
6688553 Inflatable airfoils, and elevated and propulsion driven vehicles  
An aeronautical apparatus, the combination comprising a primary airfoil having at least one panel which is an upper panel, a lower panel, and multiple gas containing tubes associated with the...
6651927 Airfoil trailing edge  
An aerofoil wing comprising upper and lower surfaces meeting at the leading and trailing edges and a camber line representing the curvature of the aerofoil comprising at least two regions of...
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...
6607164 Wing airfoil  
An airfoil having particular use in a general aviation aircraft operating at generally low speeds. The airfoil has a shape designed to produce high lift coefficients at low speeds, with low drag...
6592072 Spanwise tailoring of divergent trailing edge wings  
A method for forming a transonic wing that segregates a baseline transonic wing into a plurality of airfoil segments that are collectively modified an optimized so as to tailor a spanwise variation...
6587762 Automatic guidance unit for aerial delivery unit  
Methods and systems for programming the automatic guidance unit of an aerial delivery system. The operator selects on a hand-held unit the desired flight parameters such as the latitude, longitude...
6578798 Airlifting surface division  
This airlifting surface division idea provides for division of airlifting surfaces resulting in low induced and interference drag. It can be applied to aircraft wings and helicopter and windmill...
6485590 Method of forming a multilayer ceramic coating  
A method of forming a multilayer ceramic coating system on a substrate that requires thermal protection from a hostile thermal environment. The method generally entails forming at least one tape...
6478251 Flier structure  
A flier structure including a fuselage extending from front side to rear side and a weight body connected with front end of the fuselage. A port wing and a starboard wing respectively leftward and...
6419189 Hot ruddervator apparatus and method for an aerospacecraft  
A ruddervator for an aerospacecraft. The ruddervator is formed by a plurality of airfoil sections nestably disposed in side by side fashion and supported by a pair of titanium box beam frame...
6419187 Profile  
In a thin-walled profile with profile variation using anisotropisms due to the material or the structure, the anisotropisms due to the material or the structure are arranged locally in the profile...
6386481 Arrangement for fastening stringers to aircraft wing ribs  
An arrangement for fastening stringers of an aircraft wing to a transverse wing rib in the wing. An elongated fastening element is arranged to the side of the wing rib comprising a plate-like...
6382561 Trailing edge wedge for an aircraft wing  
A trailing edge wedge for an aircraft wing is attached to a bottom downwardly facing wing surface along the trailing edge of the wing so that an inner edge wedge surface is fully covered by the...
6378802 Enhance aerodynamic profile  
The enhanced aerodynamic profile of the invention consists of a profile consisting of three sections: a front or leading edge of two sides or plates forming an acute dihedral angle with the vertex...
6367740 Air foil having a hybrid leading edge construction  
A leading edge component for reducing drag and improving heat sink properties of an air foil. The leading edge component includes a composite tile component with a predetermined aerodynamic shape...
6361279 Blade profile for aircraft rotor and rotor comprising same  
The invention concerns a blade profile for aircraft rotor, comprising, between a leading edge ( 1 A) and a trailing edge ( 1 B), a suction face ( 2 ) and a blade face ( 3 ) whereof the geometric...
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...
6267331 Airfoil with dynamic stall control by oscillatory forcing  
A method for inhibiting dynamic stall of an airfoil by causing a fluid to flow out of at least one location on the airfoil. This location may be anywhere on the airfoil; but if the location is...
6260798 High-G compact folding wing  
A compact, aerodynamic wing assembly constructed and arranged so as to withstand a force due to acceleration in at least one direction includes at least two wing segments, each of the wing segments...
6237873 Composite material wing structure  
A composite material wing structure is disclosed, comprising a plurality of composite material multi-spar structures, each including a plurality of spar extending in a span direction, placed in the...
6199796 Adaptive pneumatic wing for fixed wing aircraft  
6179248 Aircraft  
An aircraft is composed of two elongated inflated, flexible tubes diverging from each other from a nose of the aircraft toward a trailing edge. First and second membranes span the upper and lower...
6165600 Gas turbine engine component having a thermal-insulating multilayer ceramic coating  
A method of forming a multilayer ceramic coating system on a substrate that requires thermal protection from a hostile thermal environment. The method generally entails forming at least one tape...
6152405 Lift body having a variable camber  
A lift body has a variable camber to achieve a flow-favorable profile. The lift body has a structure which is elastically deformable at least in one area. An integrated adjusting device includes at...
6149101 Aircraft wing and fuselage contours  
A wing in combination with a fuselage having a body which is elongated in the direction of flight, the wing having physical parameters [comprising a wing having a relatively unswept and sharp...
6138957 Swept-back wings with airflow channeling  
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a pair of opposing wings for providing aircraft directional stability of a delta-shaped aircraft having a longitudinal axis. Each wing is...
6119978 Leading edge structure of aircraft airfoil and method of fabricating the same  
A leading edge structure of an aircraft airfoil including an outer skin, a front wall extended in the spanwise direction of the leading edge structure in a front section of the space defined by the...
6116539 Aeroelastically stable forward swept wing  
The instant invention generally relates to a forwardly swept wing 10 for an aircraft comprised of a pair of opposed single piece machined aluminum alloy wing boxes 20 and 40. Specifically, the...
6098927 Multi-purpose aircraft  
Several innovative systems for an aircraft, and aircraft incorporating them, are disclosed. Features include inboard-mounted engine(s) with a belt drive system for turning wing-situated propellers;...
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...
6095457 Airfoil and wing configuration  
A novel concept for a wing or airfoil incorporates the model of the natural wave behavior. The leading edge of the airfoil is parallel to the trailing edge, but offset by a given amplitude. The...
6089503 Selectively rotatable and torsionally flexible aerodynamic control apparatus  
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided an aerodynamic control system which is attachable to an aircraft body and is operable between enhanced control and radar evasive modes....
6089502 Blunt-leading-edge raked wingtips  
An airplane having a fuselage (11), opposed main wings (12), and blunt-leading-edge raked wingtips (8) is provided. Each main wing includes an outboard end (9) and a leading edge (14) having an...
6082667 Inflated wing  
An inflatable wing containing high pressure inflated spars incorporates open cell foam filling the space within the wing. The foam inflates to a shape in tension which defines the surface contour...
5918832 Wing design using a high-lift center section, augmented by all-moving wing tips and tails  
An air vehicle defining a plane of symmetry includes a pair of outboard panels which are rotatably mounted on the lifting body of the vehicle and respectively extend in opposite directions from the...
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...
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