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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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. The area/lift distribution of the body portion is tailored to reduce... | 11/01/2005 |
| 5842666 | Laminar supersonic transport aircraft The present invention is a laminar supersonic transport aircraft having a reverse delta wing located between a forward section and a distal end of the aircraft, a set of jet engines superposed on another set of jet engines, a stabilizing vertical tail loc... | 12/01/1998 |
| 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 transverse-thrust rocket engines (5) located in the spacecraft fuselage... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5096140 | Aircraft with engine pods tiltable about a transverse axis The invention concerns an aircraft with engine pods located outboard on the wings and tiltable about a transverse axis. A fixed wing centerpiece is provided which terminates at the outside in each spanwise direction in a separation location. A through tub... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5082204 | All wing aircraft An all-wing aircraft is disclosed that has novel foreplane and depending aftplane, a center wing section and outer wing panel flying surfaces which cooperate aerodynamically to eliminate the need for conventional fuselage and tail structures. The foreplan... | 01/21/1992 |
| 4767083 | High performance forward swept wing aircraft A high performance aircraft capable of subsonic, transonic and supersonic speeds employs a forward swept wing planform and at least one first-and-second-solution ejector located on the inboard section of the wing. A high degree of flow control on the inbo... | 08/30/1988 |
