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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8177161 | Retracting air cushioned landing system for air vehicles An air vehicle includes a bag skirt extendable along a portion of a hull of the air vehicle. The bag skirt is inflatable to provide an air cushion during touchdown and deflatable during flight of the air vehicle. The air vehicle also includes a cover roller adjacent... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8123162 | Unmanned air vehicles and method of landing same There is provided an Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) including an engine and an airframe, including means for performing a deep stall maneuver at least one inflatable sleeve connected or connectable to the airframe, and means for inflating the sleeve during flight, where... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8079547 | Flotation systems Flotation systems including separately packed floats and life rafts are disclosed. Such systems, advantageously used for helicopters or other vessels, attach rafts to exterior covers of the floats. Thus, if not needed, or if maintenance or repair is required, the ra... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8016229 | Retracting air cushioned landing system for air vehicles A hybrid air vehicle is disclosed in which a cover is provided for a plurality of air cushioned landing pads to reduce drag when airborne. The pad is inflatable to provide an air cushioned during touchdown and deflatable during flight of the air vehicle. The cover c... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7954757 | Landing gear noise attenuation A landing gear noise attenuator mitigates noise generated by airframe deployable landing gear. The noise attenuator can have a first position when the landing gear is in its deployed or down position, and a second position when the landing gear is in its up or stowe... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7311580 | Visual display and method of providing a visual display Outer and inner inflatable members and a motor assembly including a fan are disposed on a base member. Air provided under pressure by the motor assembly including the fan passes through vents in the base member to inflate the inflatable members. Flakes are disposed ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7210549 | Air board An air board including a platform upon which an operator of the vehicle can be supported; and a support arrangement for providing an air flow for supporting the platform above a surface, wherein the direction of movement of the air board is at least partially contro... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7207522 | Safety device trigger for activating a safety device An emergency floatation system for a helicopter includes a safety trigger device for inflating at least one raft during the course of an emergency. The safety trigger device includes a plurality of handles such that pulling any one of the plurality of handles trigge... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7093796 | Aircraft An aircraft has an aircraft part with driving means and a body, and an impact reducing device which is movable between an inoperative position in which it is located close to the body and an operative position in which it is moved away from the body so as to first b... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7040572 | Lighter-than-air aircraft with air cushion landing gear means A lighter-than-air aircraft (1) having a gas-filled hull (2) and a pair of spaced apart landing gear units (11, 12) on the underside of the hull arranged on opposite sides of a longitudinally extending central vertical plane of the hull. Each la... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6880783 | Hybrid air vehicle having air cushion landing gear A hybrid air vehicle having a gas-filled contoured flattened hull including a pair of longitudinally extending side lobes defining, on the underside of the hull, a longitudinally extending central recess, a payload module received in the central recess and air cushi... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6644591 | Aerodynamic supplementary device for float aircraft The additional device according to the invention for floats for seaplanes and floatplanes comprises four airtight bladders (10) to which compressed air can be applied, and which extend along the float and rest on side surfaces (11) of the float, which ess... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6422511 | Support system for ground testing an aircraft The invention is a system for supporting a vertical take off and landing aircraft during hover tests about the ground, the aircraft having a longitudinal, vertical, and lateral axis, a nose landing gear and a main landing gear positioned rear therefrom on... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6371410 | Emergency landing impact absorbing system for aircraft Inflation of impact absorbing bags is effected on a portable platform positioned on an emergency landing zone after jettisoning of damaged landing gear from a helicopter fuselage. The impact absorbing bags when inflated form a cradle shape conforming to t... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6338456 | Landing impact absorbing deployment system for aircraft with damaged landing gear Inflation of impact absorbing bags is effected in time delayed relation to selective jettisoning of damaged landing gear on a helicopter prior to landing for replacement of the landing gear by the bags, without puncture thereof by the landing gear being j... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6237875 | Airbag payload landing system for damping landing impact forces on a flying payload An airbag configuration for braking the landing impact of flying payloads has a central airbag (17) and at least one torus ring (11, 12, 13) surrounding the central airbag. A payload (L) is attachable on the central airbag (17). A stabilizing device (19) ... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6158691 | Process for preventing turning over during the landing of an aircraft or spacecraft A process for preventing overturning during the landing of an aircraft or spacecraft using an air bag type landing impact-damping system, which is inflated with gas before the landing and from which gas is discharged via discharge valves during the landin... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6042051 | Emergency self inflating aircraft landing assist system An aircraft landing assist system comprised of a preformed and prepacked parawing-bag and fuselage housing and deployment is described. In case of emergency the system can be deployed automatically, manually, or by means of explosive charge. After deploym... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6029932 | Detonating valve for releasing openings of air bag landing systems The detonating valve for releasing openings of air bag landing systems for aircraft and spacecraft has a wedge type charge and a cover closing the opening, which cover is shorn off during the ignition of the wedge type charge. The cover is a thin-walled d... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5944282 | Landing shock absorber A landing shock absorber for aircraft including brake parachutes and comprising a landing cushion for creating damping upon impact of the aircraft, the landing cushion having an inflatable inner bag including a pressure-tight, plastically deformable sheet... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5909857 | Filimonov hybrid dirigible craft The hybrid dirigible craft belongs to the category of flying vehicles which use an air cushion and take off and land at any type of airfield. The air of the invention is to design an improved dirigible craft capable of taking off from and landing on water... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5873545 | Combined flying machine A combined flying machine comprises a fuselage (1) in the form of a central hick wing with a vertical open tunnel (2), in which there is mounted a lifting rotor (4). Said machine is also provided with outboard wings and a tail unit (8). The machine is equi... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5765778 | Flight vehicle with a safety device An aircraft which is capable of safely landing during an emergency landing is disclosed. The aircraft has a safety device which includes a plurality of auxiliary engines. Each auxiliary engine is movable so as to vary the thrust axis in a range between a ... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5692706 | Inflatable float step-reinforcement system An improved step reinforcement system is disclosed for use in inflatable or pneumatic aircraft floats such as are employed in waterborne and amphibious aircraft. The float itself comprises a continuous tubular shell having spaced apart upper and lower wal... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5681010 | Inflatable deployable control structures for aerospace vehicles The invention discloses a deployable, inflatable aerodynamic control structure for aerospace vehicles which has a desired noncircular or noncylindrical cross-section and fabrication methods therefor. In a preferred embodiment, the control structure is con... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5622133 | Transport facility with dynamic air cushion The transport facility with dynamic air cushion, which has a hull, a wing with flaps, and a tail empennage. A power system turns propellers connected with a transmission. The propellers are installed in front of the wing. Pneumatic cylinders are located a... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5538203 | Ballonet system for a lighter-than-air vehicle The invention is a ballonet system for a lighter-than-air-vehicle, the vehicle having a lift producing gas bag and a longitudinal, vertical and lateral axis. In detail, the ballonet system includes a plurality of ballonets located within the gas bag posit... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5356097 | Segmented safety aircraft An aircraft includes a cockpit permanently connected to a fuselage base. At least one fuselage segment is detachably mounted to the support. In case of an imminent crash the segment is detachable from the remainder of the aircraft and can float to safety ... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5265829 | Tetrahedral lander An apparatus and method is disclosed for decelerating and absorbing impact of a re-entry vehicle suitable for payloads that are relatively light as well as payloads weighing several tons or more. The apparatus includes four inflatable legs displaced equid... | 11/30/1993 |
| 5259574 | Safety device for helicopters and similar equipment with rotors A device for protecting a helicopter and its occupants from damage during a crash or difficult landing. The device includes an inflatable bag attached to the bottom fuselage which covers a totality of the surface of the helicopter's bottom fuselage. The b... | 11/09/1993 |
| 4923145 | Aircraft landing equipment Auxiliary landing equipment for aircraft which comprises a plurality of inflatable cushions arranged in a predetermined array relative to each other and structure for securing them to the aircraft so that, in an inflated state, the cushions can contact th... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4915052 | Method for restoring and maintaining buoyancy and apparatus for preventing loss of buoyancy for floatplanes A method for restoring and maintaining buoyancy for floatplane floats by inserting an inflatable air bag into the leaking compartment in the float and inflating the air bag until the water in the float is expelled from the float and the air bag seals the ... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4828058 | Hovercraft with improved maneuverability Disclosed is a hovercraft having a pair of air cushions, associated with each air cushion is a rotatable fan which partly produces lifting force and partly propels and maneuvers the craft. The fans are mounted perpendicular to the direction of travel, per... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4757962 | Amphibious vehicle An amphibious vehicle comprises a fuselage having a pair of support pods at the front end thereof and a single support pod at the rear. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, each pod has a fan therein and in accordance with another embodimen... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4697762 | Inflatable float assembly and undercarriage for aircraft Inflatable or pneumatic float assembly has tough outer fabric tubular shell with an upper wall having a first elongated sleeve extending therealong to receive an elongated stiffening member. A lower wall of the float is stiffener by stiffeners to provide ... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4660670 | Wing-in-ground effect air cushion vehicle An air-cushion vehicle of the type having a flat rigid platform with rigid longitudinal walls attached to the platform. In such an air-cushion vehicle a plurality of transverse trough-shaped skirts are provided so as to form a space bounded by the skirt a... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4655415 | Helicopter flotation A helicopter flotation pack includes an inflatable flotation bladder secured to an intermediate structural member which includes means for attachment to a helicopter landing skid. The structural member cooperatively defines a sheltered chamber for inflati... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4645142 | Impact attenuation One end of a hose is affixed to the underside of the object which may descend and whose impact has to be cushioned while the other end of the hose is pulled through the first end, the two ends are separately fastened permitting filling of the hose; a seco... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4624441 | Inflation valve A pilot-operated valve suitable for pontoon inflation arrangements contains a main valve poppet urged against a valve seat connecting the inlet and outlet ports of the valve. A portion of the inlet pressure urges a piston carrying the valve poppet away fr... | 11/25/1986 |
| 4383664 | Vibration suppressing trunk fingers for air cushion devices In an aircraft air cushion takeoff and landing system with a flexible trunk section in the form of a large expandable tube, having multiple air exhaust holes in the bottom thereof, encircling the bottom of the fuselage, a group of flexible finger-like pro... | 05/17/1983 |
