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5192037 Double-pivoting deployment system for aerosurfaces  
A double-pivoting deployment system for aerosurfaces, such as wings or fins, for use on aerospace vehicles. Each aerosurface has an inner segment and an outer segment. The inner segment is...
5160100 Airfoil canopy aircraft  
An aircraft comprises a vehicle (1) suspended in flight by a steering control rod (68) pivotally mounted to the body of the vehicle and having outer ends (12, 14) connected to the lower ends of...
5141084 Brake stop  
A brake stop for limiting the rotation of a rotating member to a predetermined amount comprises a brake which is actuable for stopping rotation of the rotating member and an actuator mechanism...
5104061 Dual eccentric bearing for adjustment of pivoting aircraft wings  
A dual eccentric bearing system for precise adjustment of wing incidence and dihedral. The bearing system is utilized in the attachment of wings that vary the sweep by rotation about a pivot...
5096143 Tail unit with rotatable tailplane  
The tailplane 6 is mounted to an aircraft by a spigot 7 and is also rotatable about the spigot 7 to provide aerodynamic control. At the same time the tail plane is pivotable about an axis extending...
5078338 Means for maintaining a desired relationship between roll and yaw stability in a swept-wing aircraft by varying dihedral as a function of lift coefficient  
An assembly for controlling the lateral stability of a swept-wing aircraft by varying the geometric dihedral of the wing as a function of the wing's lift coefficient, such assembly including a...
5078339 Unmanned aircraft having a pivotably movable double wing unit  
An aircraft including a fuselage and a double wing unit which is pivotably mounted onto the fuselage and arranged to selectably assume a first orientation, generally parallel to the fuselage,...
5035378 Variable alignment mechanism  
An alignment mechanism for independently adjusting the deployable aerosurfaces of an aerospace vehicle in both the stowed and deployed positions. The alignment mechanism includes a guide means...
5031857 Two-stage earth-to-orbit transport with translating oblique wings for booster recovery  
A two-stage earth-to-orbit transport includes an orbiter vehicle and a pair of boosters, each having a depolyable oblique wing located along a longitudinal axis of the booster. The wing is deployed...
4998689 90 degree rotation aircraft wing  
A high speed aircraft fitted with a unitary, rotatable wing coupled to the craft's fuselage at a hollow turret or solid pivot pin, enabling it to operate with the wing in either of two ninety...
4986493 Convertible fixed wing aircraft  
A fixed wing aircraft that can be converted to an automotive vehicle, comprising a generally rectangular planform fuselage having four wheels as in conventional automobile practice, and a...
4917333 Actuated forebody strakes  
Actuated forebody strakes provide yaw control at high angles of attack. In one embodiment, the strakes are axially slidable in the forebody to be deployed out of slots provided for the strakes in...
4913378 Airplane with transonic/hypersonic to short take off and landing (STOL) flight capability  
An airplane construction is described in which the flight characteristics of the airplane, are radically changed from hypersonic capable to short take off and landing (STOL) capable by the...
4863117 Profiled wing for controlled deformation and application thereof to beating wing aircraft  
The invention relates to a contoured wing intended to serve as a airfoil or a blade. This wing comprises a longitudinal stringer (3), a plurality of juxtaposed wing sectors (1, 2), each articulated...
4848700 Canard control system for aircraft  
A system with a canard disposed in a cage with canard fore and aft movement within the cage for trimming purposes. Rails support the cage and include both horizontal and inclined segments with the...
4836470 Aerospace vehicle having multiple propulsion systems on a relatively rotatable flying wing  
An aerospace vehicle having multiple propulsion systems on a relatively rotatable flying wing capable of takeoff and subsequent landing with intermediate space flight in the manner of a...
4773619 Aircraft structure for take-off and landing on a pilot's feet  
The invention relates to an aircraft structure to make possible take-off and landing on a pilot's feet. The aircraft structure according to the invention can be regarded as a category between...
4744534 Unfurlable member for increasing wing surface area  
An unfurlable sheet is normally stored within a hollowed fillet existing between the fuselage of an aircraft and a confronting edge of the aircraft wing. When the surface area of the wing is to be...
4720061 Aircraft rotating wing seal and method therefor  
A method for sealing a gap between an aircraft fuselage and a wing turntable mounted thereon while in the inflight position. A seal element having wing attached and fuselage attached sections is...
D291555 Two-stage spacecraft with collapsible wings  
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....
4667898 Aircraft with single surface membranous airfoils  
A remotely piloted vehicle is provided with single surface membranous airls controllable in flight. The airfoils are selectively deployed from a stowed position on either side within the fuselage...
4641800 Tandem or multi-winged high performance aircraft  
This invention relates to a tandem or multi-winged aircraft wherein a primary wing system is so designed and equipped that it is capable of being actuated in a manner to bring about a shift in the...
4605183 Swing wing glider  
A glider comprising a pair of wings having overlapped forward, inner root portions that are freely pivotally connected and tailfins on rearward, outer portions of the wings. The tailfins are...
4601443 Free flyable structure  
A free flyable structure includes a wing formation (2) including an inflatable container of such form that when it is inflated the container (2) has an aerofoil shaped cross-section whereby...
4485993 Pocket structure for a foldable wing of an aircraft  
The pocket structure for a foldable wing of an aircraft, especially a high erformance aircraft, is constructed at least partially of flexible material forming a completely closed volume with an...
4482108 Tilt wing short takeoff aircraft and method  
A short takeoff and landing aircraft (10) and vertical/short takeoff and landing aircraft (10), having upper surface blowing engines (12, 14) on gull-shaped wings (24, 26) which may be tilted and...
4471925 Apparatus for closing an air gap between a flap and an aircraft  
An air gap between a main flap and an adjacent aircraft portion is closed an auxiliary flap. The auxiliary flap (8) has a hinging axis (9) extending substantially in parallel to the aerodynamic...
4405102 Variable wing position supersonic biplane  
A wing structure for an aircraft designed for both STOL and supersonic flight conditions includes a biplanar wing arrangement in which the lower wing section is staggered behind the upper wing...
4365774 Convertible delta wing aircraft  
An airplane is disclosed which has a pair of fixed, outwardly extending delta wings extending laterally from a fuselage, a set of initial flaps pivotably attached to the rear of the fixed wings, a...
4358077 Transverse wing actuation system  
An aircraft sustentation system is disclosed which consists of one pair of fixed swept primary wings attached to the fuselage of the aircraft, and one pair of pivotal swept transverse wings...
4356786 Hydrofoil boat  
An improved utility class hydrofoil boat having an integrated hydrofoil suspension and steering system wherein pairs of foils may be inclined at various angles, to the lateral axis of the boat,...
4336914 Deployable wing mechanism  
A deployable wing assembly using an inner wing segment and an outer wing segment. The inner wing segment is hinged longitudinally to the body of a missile, or the like, and with the outer wing...
4243192 Ball pivot thrust bearing flex joint  
A ball pivot thrust bearing flex joint assembly having an inner race member and an outer race member, the inner surface of the outer race member being a concave spherical self lubricating surface...
4237811 Winged ski boat  
A water ski boat having separate air foils attached to the forward and aft portions of the boat arranged to exert more lift on the aft portion than on the forward portion of the boat. Specifically,...
4235400 Hi-lo two speed wing  
An upper and lower member are joined together near the tip. They are hinged near the front and back on the top member. This allows the wings to be opened for high speed, when cruising, and to be...
4232515 Supersonic cruise airplane and engine  
A supersonic airplane has a fuselage, a wing, a vertical stabilizer, a canard and a pair of turbine engines mounted in the fuselage. Each engine is of relatively simple design with a fixed inlet, a...
4212441 Wing pivot assembly for variable sweep wing aircraft  
A wing pivot assembly for variable sweep wing aircraft for movably securing a wing of the aircraft to the fuselage. The wing pivot assembly has a pivot pin supported by a pair of inboard lugs...
4161300 Canard type aircraft  
The present canard type of aircraft comprises steering rudder elements which are tiltable substantially about the leading edge of each wing of the aircraft, whereby the respective edge of the...
4139172 Staggerwing aircraft  
An aircraft having a fuselage provided with wing panels in staggered positions along the fuselage such that control surfaces of the forward wing panel are substantially closer to the center of...
4132374 Wing pivot location and structure for oblique wing airplane  
A supersonic airplane having a wing mounted for pivotal movement between a conventional position orthogonal to the fuselage and an oblique position relative to the fuselage has its vertical pivot...
4132375 Vortex-lift roll-control device  
A wing, for aircraft of cropped, arrow-type planform with thin leading and side edges, having a pivotable tip to alter the crop angle of the wing during flight. Increasing the crop angle causes the...
4093156 Supersonic transport  
An aircraft of supersonic transport configuraton featuring thrust vectoring in conjunction with wing apex segments used as canard surfaces during take-off, landing, and low-speed flight. The angle...
4029272 Variable-geometry aircraft seal  
For sealing the gap between the fuselage and a swing-wing of a swing-wing aircraft there is provided an elongated, inflated, flexible bag mounted in a recess of the fuselage, all the longitudinal...
4022403 Convertible aircraft  
An aircraft that is designed to additionally be able to travel along a railroad track so that it can get into a heart of a city, instead of terminating at an airport located some distance away from...
3987985 Device for sealing off fuselage gap of aircraft  
A device for sealing the fuselage gap in a variable geometry aircraft. The fuselage gap is designed to receive part of the movable wing on the aircraft. The seal is in contact with the upper and...
3980257 Extensible-retractable wing  
Two wing semi-spans of unitary construction are mounted on an aircraft fuage. Screwjacks mounted in the fuselage extend and retract each semi-span while maintaining the wing sweep angles constant....
3971535 Oblique-wing supersonic aircraft  
An aircraft including a single fuselage having a main wing and a horizontal stabilizer airfoil pivotally attached at their centers to the fuselage. The pivotal attachments allow the airfoils to be...
3924825 PLASTIC BEARING  
Heating device for a plastic bearing. For swing-wing aircraft operating at low temperatures there is provided heating device by which temperature control is maintained over a plastic bearing having...
3917194 Automatically operating device for sealing a fuselage recess of aircrafts  
Sealing device for an aircraft fuselage. For adjustable wing aircraft whose wings retract into the fuselage under certain conditions of flight there is provided a resilient sealing device at the...
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