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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110309187 | NESTED CORE GAS TURBINE ENGINE An aircraft, with the ability to cruise at supersonic speeds, designed to increase cruise lift/drag ratio, reduce sonic boom and have greater downward visibility by having an ‘inverted’ nose profile that has greater inclination of the lower surfaces to the flight di... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110121130 | BLENDED WING BODY CARGO AIRPLANE A blended wing body cargo aircraft is disclosed. A body section defines a cargo volume, where an outer surface of the body section is shaped to provide an aerodynamic lifting surface. A cargo door and ramp structure is located in an aft end of the body section and is sh... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20100252674 | Reducing runway requirement for aircraft Runway length requirement for take-off and landing of an aircraft is reduced by taking advantage of dynamic lift overshoot, and in some cases, dynamic stall. In take-off and landing, the angle of attack is rapidly increased so that the lift coefficient exceeds the maxim... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100243795 | OBLIQUE BLENDED WING BODY AIRCRAFT An oblique wing aircraft (1) designed for reduced surface area to volume ratio. The aircraft has an oblique wing comprising a forward swept wing segment (27) on one side of the wing and an aft swept wing segment (29) on the opposite side of the wing... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100213308 | POSITIVE-PRESSURE FLYING AIRCRAFT Provided is a positive-pressure floating type airplane comprising an airfoil portion, left-right fuselages, a central fuselage, an elevator and a rudder disposed at the back of the airfoil portion, a thruster disposed at the back of the central fuselage, and a horizonta... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100187352 | MULTI DECK AIRCRAFT The invention relates to multi deck passenger aircraft, having passenger cabins and/or service facilities arranged on the upper and lower deck and inner load bearing cell structure provided within aircraft body. The present invention is also directed toward methods for ... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100163670 | DELTOID MAIN WING AERODYNAMIC CONFIGURATIONS Deltoid Main Wing idea provides for several innovative aerodynamic configurations for large subsonic and supersonic civil and military aircraft including “T-tailed Deltoid Main Wing” configuration that allows for design of high-subsonic jumbo jet passenger aircraft ... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100163669 | Super aircraft structrue An aircraft structure is provided. The aircraft structure for an aircraft includes a fuselage, front wings, rear small wings, vertical winglets, and four levels. The fuselage has a cross-section of substantially a half circle fuselage shape. Being is wide enough to prov... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100102165 | Method for Improving the Performance of an Aircraft According to the invention, the nose cone (2.I) of the aircraft is modified so as to increase the lifting resultant (R′).... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100012773 | Aircrft Structure An aircraft structure is provided. The aircraft structure for an aircraft includes a fuselage, front wings, rear delta wings, vertical winglets, and three levels. The fuselage has a cross-section of substantially rectangular flat shape, being is wide enough to provide l... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20090230238 | Aircraft fuselage structure An aircraft fuselage structure is described for a flying-wing aircraft, having a central area of slight curvature and side areas of greater curvature, which forms a pressure body and has an outer skin and structure reinforcements which support the outer skin. According ... | 09/17/2009 |
| 20090152392 | PARAMETRIC GEOMETRY MODEL FOR A BLENDED WING BODY Lofting of a Blended Wing Body air vehicle is accomplished by first determining the required payload volume of the air vehicle. The payload volume is then analyzed to determine a list of corner points of the payload volume. The list of points is passed to a Loft Module ... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20080277524 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AIRCRAFT Methods and apparatus for aircraft according to various aspects of the present invention operate in conjunction with a fuselage and a wing. The fuselage may be configured to generate lift in response to airflow over the fuselage. In addition, the fuselage may have at le... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20070187550 | Integrated inward turning inlets and nozzles for hypersonic air vehicles A hypersonic waverider aircraft is disclosed that includes a first engine and an inlet including a throat. The inlet is configured to generate three-dimensional flow compression during hypersonic flight with a weak shock wave that begins at the leading edge surfaces of ... | 08/16/2007 |
| 20070170309 | Flight device (aircraft) with a lift-generating fuselage An aircraft has a lift-generating fuselage (1), the largest span (11) of the fuselage being in the third fifth (15) or the four fifth (17) of the total length thereof. The outline of the fuselage progressively tapers off in the first fifth (<... | 07/26/2007 |
| 20070018036 | Lifting body aircraft and reentry vehicle with chines A lifting body aircraft suitable for atmospheric flight and/or as a reentry vehicle. The craft has a substantially flat upper surface, a lower surface with a doubly convex first section and a flat sloping second section. Chines may be provided between the upper and lowe... | 01/25/2007 |
| 20070018041 | Model aircraft A toy vehicle adapted for remote control operation. The toy vehicle includes a pair of sponsons which are spaced apart by a horizontal wing. A tail section is provided. The tail section includes one or more moveable directional control surfaces. A motive mechanism is mo... | 01/25/2007 |
| 20050178884 | Flight device with a lift-generating fuselage The invention relates to an aircraft comprising a lift-producing fuselage (1) whose largest span (11) lies in the middle third (14) of the total length and whose horizontal projection progressively diminishes in the front third (13) and in th... | 08/18/2005 |
