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7581696 Aircraft attitude control configuration  
An aircraft attitude control configuration enables control surfaces to provide attitude control for an aircraft at hover or low air speed conditions. The aircraft attitude control configuration...
7516921 Forward pivoted full flying control tail boom  
An aircraft motion control mechanism for regulating aircraft motion from a location remote from an aircraft body portion. The aircraft auxiliary control mechanism has at least one control surface...
7448578 Aircraft with forward opening inlay spoilers for yaw control  
An aircraft comprises first and second wings positioned on opposite sides of a longitudinal axis with each of the first and second wings including an upper surface and a lower surface, wherein no...
7308762 Method and apparatus for rotatably supporting movable components, including canards  
Methods and apparatuses for rotatably supporting movable components, including canards. An apparatus in accordance with one embodiment of the invention includes an airfoil configured positioned...
7258302 Aircraft internal wing and design  
An aircraft designed with three wings located on either side of the fuselage. The forward wing has a downward angle with a curved top and bottom surface. The upper wing is located towards the rear...
7216830 Wing gull integration nacelle clearance, compact landing gear stowage, and sonic boom reduction  
A supersonic cruise configuration aircraft comprises a fuselage extending on a longitudinal axis from a forward nose to an aft tail, and a wing coupled at an inboard section to the fuselage and...
7108230 Aircraft with topside only spoilers  
An aircraft with swept back wings and spoilers inlaid into the top surface near the tips of the wings. The aircraft also includes an elevator formed in the center back portion of the aircraft,...
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...
7083140 Full-bore artillery projectile fin development device and method  
A method and structure for a full-bore artillery projectile fin deployment device comprising a projectile stabilization fin comprising an aperture and a movable pawl; a rod comprising a head...
7000869 Cross section for a supersonic airplane  
A fuselage for an airplane comprising a first side of the fuselage having a first curvature; and a second side of the fuselage having a second curvature; wherein the first curvature is different...
6974106 V/STOL biplane  
The present invention is a 2 passenger aircraft capable of vertical and conventional takeoffs and landings, called a jyrodyne. The jyrodyne comprises a central fuselage with biplane-type wings...
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...
6959896 Passive aerodynamic sonic boom suppression for supersonic aircraft  
An aircraft capable of supersonic flight comprises a body portion including a fuselage, a wing, and an engine nacelle mounted below the wing. The aircraft may also include a high-mounted aft, tail....
6921045 Supersonic aircraft with channel relief control  
A supersonic aircraft comprises a fuselage extending forward and aft along a longitudinal axis, the fuselage having a lower surface and an upper surface, a highly swept low aspect ratio wing...
6886778 Efficient wing tip devices and methods for incorporating such devices into existing wing designs  
Efficient wing tip devices for use with aircraft wings. In one embodiment, an aircraft wing/winglet combination includes a wing having a wing root portion and a wing tip portion spaced apart from...
6848649 V/STOL biplane aircraft  
The present invention is a 2 passenger aircraft capable of vertical and conventional takeoffs and landings, called a jyrodyne. The jyrodyne comprises a central fuselage with biplane-type wings...
6824092 Aircraft tail configuration for sonic boom reduction  
A supersonic aircraft comprises a wing having upper and lower surfaces and extending from a leading edge to a trailing edge and at least two engine nacelles coupled to the lower surface of the wing...
6793172 Lightweight remotely controlled aircraft  
An aircraft which is designed for remote controlled slow flight, indoor or in a small outdoor yard or field. The aerial lifting body is defined by a series of lightweight planar or thin airfoil...
6786450 Rapidly-convertible roadable aircraft  
A pusher canard aircraft convertible for road use. Canard outer sections are removable and are stored within the aircraft fuselage and the outer main wing sections rotate horizontally for storage...
6749401 Hydrodynamically and aerodynamically optimized leading edge structure for propellers, wings, and airfoils  
A novel concept for a propeller blade configuration incorporates the model of the natural wave behavior. The leading edge of the propeller blade has a convex segment followed by a concave segment,...
6745979 Spacecraft and aerospace plane having scissors wings  
A spacecraft such as a fly back booster or a reusable launch vehicle, or an aerospace plane has a fuselage and a set of scissors wings consisting of two main wings. Both of the main wings are...
6729577 Tail-braced wing aircraft and configurations for achieving long supersonic range and low sonic boom  
The present invention provides improvements for supersonic aircraft, joined-wing aircraft and sonic boom reduction, separately and in combination, for long range supersonic cruise aircraft with...
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...
6659396 Arch wing and forward steering for an advanced air vehicle  
An air vehicle having an elongated body structure, which has an aft portion and an arch wing device that is coupled to the aft portion of the body structure. The arch wing device includes a lower...
6626398 Unmanned biplane for airborne reconnaissance and surveillance having staggered and gapped wings  
The present invention provides an unmanned airborne reconnaissance vehicle having a fuselage, a forward wing pair and a rearward wing pair vertically separated by a gap and staggered fore and aft...
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...
6543720 Directional control and aerofoil system for aircraft  
An aircraft is disclosed. The aircraft has a canard control surface 25 and an aft control surface 10. The canard control surface comprises an integral aerofoil which in its entirety pivots...
6513754 Transonic flow shockwave position stabilizer  
A stabilizer suitable for stabilizing a shock formed during transonic velocity is presented. The stabilizer comprises an inboard end, an outboard end that forms an airfoil, which is positioned...
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...
6474604 Mobius-like joining structure for fluid dynamic foils  
This invention, though preferably applied to aircraft structure, has application to foil-bearing devices in general, creating structure somewhat similar to the structure of a mobius band surface...
6446908 Aircraft lift arrangement  
An aircraft lift arrangement that consists of fine fins which are parallel among themselves and slightly curved, arranged attached along the sides of the aircraft fuselage, beginning at the front...
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...
6422518 Aircraft with means for a premature breakdown of the wing vortex pair  
For a premature breakdown of a wing vortex pair +/−Γ M behind an aircraft in flight ( 1 ) comprising a symmetry plane ( 7 ), two wings ( 3 ), a fuselage ( 2 ) and a horizontal tail plane (HTP)...
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...
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...
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...
6340134 Wing combination for drag reduction, aircraft including such a wing, and a method of reducing the drag of an existing aircraft  
An apparatus and method are provided for reducing the drag of an aircraft wing. Many modern high speed aircraft have a low aspect ratio wing generating significant induced drag. The invention...
6308913 Method for reducing wave resistance in airplane  
It is an object of the present invention to reduce the wave resistance by disposing a fluid element such as an engine nacelle in a predetermined position on the upper surface of the main wing, and...
6293497 Airplane with unswept slotted cruise wing airfoil  
Slotted cruise airfoil technology allows production of a substantially unswept wing that achieves the same cruise speed as today's conventional jet airplanes with higher sweep. This technology...
6227498 Single surface independent aircraft control  
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided an aerodynamic control device for integrated use with an aircraft having an inboard lifting member. The inboard lifting member having a...
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...
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...
6102328 Method for reducing wave resistance in airplane  
A method to reduce the wave resistance of an airplane by disposing a fluid element such as an engine nacelle at a predetermined position on an upper surface of a main wing, positively superposing...
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...
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...
6086015 Aerial transport method and apparatus  
Apparatus for transporting a load between source and destination locations, comprising an aircraft having a body, power plant carried by the body to drive the aircraft both generally vertically and...
5988563 Articulating winglets  
The present invention is directed to a unique foldable winglet assembly adaptable for use with an aircraft for maximizing the wing span of the aircraft during cruise operation while reducing wing...
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...
5934607 Shock suppression supersonic aircraft  
The invention is a supersonic aircraft. In detail, the aircraft is in the form of a flying wing having a generally flat upper surface, a generally cosine shaped lower surface and a swept back...
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