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7559505 |
Apparatus and method for restraining and deploying an airfoil
An apparatus includes means for biasing a first airfoil of a vehicle toward a fully deployed position, means for restraining the first airfoil in a stowed position, means for releasing the first...
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7510143 |
Wing assembly and aircraft
An aircraft is provided with a wing assembly mounted in a slipstream of a source of propulsion of the aircraft. The aircraft includes a body having a longitudinal axis, a wing assembly carried by...
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7441724 |
System and method for controlling a roll rate of a torsionally-disconnected freewing aircraft
An aircraft includes a fuselage, and first and second freewings. Each of the first and second freewings is separately mounted to the fuselage and independently freely pivotable about respective...
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7338010 |
Air-launchable aircraft and method of use
An air-launched aircraft includes deployable wings, elevons, and vertical fins that deploy from a fuselage during flight. The aircraft may include a control system for operating the elevons, a...
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7249734 |
Aerodynamic vehicle having a variable geometry, co-planar, joined wing
An aerodynamic vehicle is comprised of a pair of forward wing sections and a pair of rearward wing sections that are connected together by four pivot assemblies as a four-bar linkage. The four-bar...
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7185847 |
Winged vehicle with variable-sweep cantilevered wing mounted on a translating wing-support body
A winged vehicle includes an elongated fuselage, and a wing mechanism affixed to the fuselage. The wing mechanism has a wing-support-body track affixed to and extending lengthwise along the...
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7185846 |
Asymmetrical control surface system for tube-launched air vehicles
Asymmetrical Control Surface System for Tube-Launched Air Vehicles places one control surface, such as a wing or a horizontal tail, above horizontal midplane axis of an air vehicle, such as a...
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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...
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7051974 |
Pivoting aircraft wing and associated method
A pivoting aircraft wing and associated system and method are provided. The pivoting aircraft wing includes a wing member, a carry-through structure, and a spar box assembly pivotally connected to...
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7028948 |
Apparatus for increase of aircraft lift and maneuverability
A morphing airfoil system includes a first airfoil having a first root, first span, first chord, and first tip. The first airfoil is attachable to an aircraft near the first root. A second airfoil...
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6986481 |
Extendable joined wing system for a fluid-born body
An extendable wing system for a fluid-born body has a forward wing and an aft wing pivotably coupled together at a location outward of their wing roots. A linkage mechanism mounted on the body...
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6923404 |
Apparatus and methods for variable sweep body conformal wing with application to projectiles, missiles, and unmanned air vehicles
An unmanned air vehicle (“UAV”) apparatus is configured to have a body and a body-conformal wing. The body-conformal wing is configured to variably sweep from a closed position to a fully...
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6899298 |
Variable area wing aircraft and method
An STOL aircraft structure has a variable-attitude, variable-area wing in addition to a traditional airfoil. The variable wing has an angle of attack that varies from 0° to a predetermined angle...
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6834835 |
Telescopic wing system
The present invention is a wing having telescoping segments deployed via an actuator composed of a heat activated material. The actuator is a coiled tube of shape memory alloy (SMA) with large...
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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...
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6742741 |
Unmanned air vehicle and method of flying an unmanned air vehicle
An unmanned air vehicle includes a singular rear landing gear wheel on the aft end of the fuselage. Port and starboard wings with rear facing propellers are retractable to the aft of the fuselage....
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6628995 |
Method and system for variable flight data collection
Aircraft flight data collection is enhanced by changing the data sampling rate as a function of an operational condition of the aircraft, such as its flight phase. An algorithm is used to determine...
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6601795 |
Air vehicle having scissors wings
An air vehicle, such as an aircraft, an unmanned air vehicle, a missile, or an aero bomb that has a fuselage and two main wings each of which has a left side wing and a right side wing. Both of the...
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6547181 |
Ground effect wing having a variable sweep winglet
A variable sweep winglet with a negative dihedral angle is provided for a ground effect vehicle. The winglet is positionable at a sweep angle to control the winglet tip clearance from ground....
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6398157 |
Aircraft
An aircraft capable of vertical take off and normal cruise flight has a fuselage and a pair of wings, the wings being movable relative to the fuselage from a rearwardly swept position to which the...
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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...
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6202958 |
Mounting arrangement for the pivotally openable rudder blades of a guided missile
To maintain control accuracy for the pivotable rudder blades (14), which lie in a combustion chamber, of a guided projectile (12) which can be fired by means of propellent charge, there is provide...
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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...
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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....
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6073880 |
Integrated missile fin deployment system
Pairs of aerofins used for stabilization and control of missile flight are deployed through shared longitudinal slots provided in the missile body. Before launch, the pairs of aerofins, each pair...
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5992796 |
Secondary wing system for use on an aircraft
A secondary wing system for use on an aircraft augments the lift, stability, and control of the aircraft at subsonic speeds. The secondary wing system includes a mechanism that allows the canard to...
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5984231 |
Aircraft with variable forward-sweep wing
An aircraft with a variable forward-sweep wing and the method of configuring the wing in an optimal position for a desired flight regime. The variable forward-sweep wing is positionable from an...
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5984228 |
Rapidly-convertible roadable aircraft
A fixed wing aircraft that can be automatically and rapidly converted to a roadway vehicle within seconds while driving in the highway, comprising a one-piece wing rotatably mounted on top of the...
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5934967 |
Self-actuating spreading apparatus
An apparatus which transforms itself from one form to another. The apparatus comprises a body having a first rotatable leg and a second rotatable leg mounted thereon. When placed in motion, the...
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5915650 |
Aircraft wing with dual axis mobility
A wing structure for hang gliders, ultralites, gliders, heavy aircraft, ornithopters and sailsoaring flying boats which has a first wing set that pivots on two axis, and a second wing set that...
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5901924 |
Speed enhanced powered parachute
A powered parachute or pendulum flying machine which includes a mechanism for shortening the chord length of the parachute wing, a mechanism for shortening the distance between the upper and lower...
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5899410 |
Aerodynamic body having coplanar joined wings
The aerodynamic body, such as an aircraft, includes a lengthwise extending fuselage and a pair of coplanar joined wings extending outwardly from opposed sides of the fuselage. The pair of coplanar...
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5897076 |
High-efficiency, supersonic aircraft
A supersonic flight aircraft having a longitudinally forwardly extending fuselage having an axis in the direction of flight, and a wing, and which comprises the wing extending generally laterally...
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5836541 |
Easily-convertible fixed-wing roadable aircraft
A fixed-wing four-seat light aircraft that can be easily converted to a roadway vehicle within minutes by a single person in the field, comprising a one-piece wing center panel with foldable wing...
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5766055 |
Model glider having position-variable wings
The present invention relates to a model glider having position-variable wings wherein the installation angle of the main wings of the model glider can be freely adjusted within a certain limit by...
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5671899 |
Airborne vehicle with wing extension and roll control
The invention is an airborne vehicle. In detail, the invention includes a main body having a longitudinal, lateral and vertical axis. A pair of wings are pivotally mounted to the main body that are...
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5671898 |
Aircraft having fixed and pivotal wings
An aircraft having variable airframe geometry includes an elongate fuselage having top and bottom sides, a swept back, high-speed wing mounted to the top of the fuselage, and a high aspect ratio,...
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5642867 |
Aerodynamic lifting and control surface and control system using same
An aerodynamic lifting and control surface comprising an external box structure that encloses an internal grid whose members are parallel to the box structure. The external box structure comprises...
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5634613 |
Tip vortex generation technology for creating a lift enhancing and drag reducing upwash effect
Methods for using tip generated vortices to improve performance of foils. These methods include generating a substantially streamwise beneficial vortex (74) near the outboard end (60) of a foil...
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5564656 |
Segmented spoilers
Segmented spoilers are parallel arrays of individually-extended barrier surfaces, such as rotatable eccentrically-mounted disks. The overlapping surface areas extend through a slot on a aircraft...
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5564652 |
Body spoiler for yaw control of a supersonic airplane
A body spoiler rotatably mounted within a recess formed within opposite sides of the forebody of a supersonic air vehicle and configured to conform with the fuselage of the vehicle. A sensor...
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5526999 |
Spacecraft with a crew escape system
The spacecraft comprises a fuselage (1), a wing (2), a power unit incorporating two liquid-propellant launching rocket engines (3), two liquid-propellant boost rocket engines (4), six...
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5505409 |
Supercavitating airframe
A method is described for reducing drag in airframes or airfoils. The method includes inducing cavitation in the boundary layer separating the airframe or foil skin and the air currents passing...
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5495999 |
Retractable canard wing surfaces for airplanes
A canard wing surface for aircraft, especially supersonic aircraft, which can be lowered and retracted flush into the fuselage of the aircraft when no longer needed. The canard is hinged to an...
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5417393 |
Rotationally mounted flexible band wing
A vehicle such as a missile (20) includes an aerodynamically shaped missile body (22) having a longitudinal centerline, a set of control surfaces (26) joined to the missile body (22), and,...
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5366180 |
High-lift device for aircraft
High lift producing apparatus for an aircraft includes a pair of foreplanes, one for each side of the aircraft, each foreplane extending between a root end at the fuselage and a distant tip end....
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5337974 |
Wing pivot structure
An aircraft wing pivot structure is described which provides a flexible ring attached to the aircraft wing at flexible wing attachment points by spherical bearings. The ring is attached to the...
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5332177 |
Aircraft
An aircraft capable of sustained flight including a fuselage and a spiral-formed flat-section right hand and left hand wing positioned in generally horizontally opposing relation along either side...
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5312070 |
Segmented variable sweep wing aircraft
A segmented variable sweep wing for an aircraft has a plurality of wing segments. A structural device movably affixes the wing segments to the fuselage of the aircraft adjacent each other at their...
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5280863 |
Lockable free wing aircraft
The aircraft includes a free wing freely pivotally supported about a spanwise axis for flight in a free wing mode and lockable in selected predetermined, fixed angles of incidence with respect to a...
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