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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8096500 | Mobile surfaces for aircraft with sealed slots A lifting or stabilising component (11) for an aircraft comprising in the area of its trailing edge a rotary control element (13) rotating around an axis (61) with at least one slot (21) between the tip (15) of the component (11... | 01/17/2012 |
| 7410133 | Miniature trailing edge effector for aerodynamic control Improved miniature trailing edge effectors for aerodynamic control are provided. Three types of devices having aerodynamic housings integrated to the trailing edge of an aerodynamic shape are presented, which vary in details of how the control surface can move. A bu... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7234667 | Modular aerospace plane This invention relates to the design of a Modular Aerospace Plane (MAP) comprising a forward fuselage section, a main wing section, a tail section and wing attachments. Various sections can be integrated to offer a variety of aircraft characteristics, performance an... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7111810 | Forward pivoted full flying control tail boom An aircraft motion control mechanism for regulating aircraft motion from a location remote from an aircraft body portion. The aircraft auxiliary control mechanism has at least one control surface support arm connected to and extending from the aircraft body portion,... | 09/26/2006 |
| 6986695 | Method for attaching an empennage assembly to a model airplane An empennage assembly for a model aircraft. The empennage assembly includes a fuselage having a bottom portion with an opening and a housing positioned in the opening in the bottom portion of the fuselage. The housing has a first end defining an opening and a second... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6935592 | Aircraft lift device for low sonic boom An aircraft lift device comprises a strake capable of coupling to an aircraft fuselage and extending to a leading edge of a wing. The strake has a leading edge. The life device further comprises a leading-edge flap coupled to the strake leading edge. ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6804586 | Arrangement for generating control commands for actuating flaps and slats of an aircraft An arrangement for generating control commands for controlling the slats and landing flaps of an aircraft includes two manually operable command input levers which are arranged directly side-by-side or as a “rod-within-rod” and are connected respectively by two ... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6729583 | Device for articulating a flap to an aircraft aerodynamic surface An articulation device for articulating a flap to an aircraft aerodynamic surface, the flap having its front edge facing a rear edge of the aerodynamic surface and the articulation device including two fittings bearing the flap. The articulation device pivots about ... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6698688 | Apparatus and methods for actuating rotatable members Apparatus and methods for actuating rotatable members are disclosed. In one embodiment, an assembly for actuating a rotatable member includes an extendible actuator having a first end and a second end, and a drive member having a first portion pivotally c... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6575406 | Integrated and/or modular high-speed aircraft An integrated and/or modular high-speed aircraft and method of design and manufacture. The aircraft can have a supersonic or near-sonic cruise Mach number. In one embodiment, the aircraft can include an aft body integrated with a delta wing and a rearward... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6543720 | Directional control and aerofoil system for aircraft An aircraft is disclosed. The aircraft has a canard control surface 25 and an aft control surface 10. The canard control surface comprises an integral aerofoil which in its entirety pivots about a first axis of rotation 28. The canard control surface has ... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6220551 | Flight controls with automatic balance Flight controls with automatic balance for use in controlling the movement of an aircraft through a fluid system, the control system includes ailerons divided into two parts, which at lower speed adopt the shape of a conventional aileron and rotate in the... | 04/24/2001 |
| 5722615 | Transport airplane with front empennage Airplane (1) including a mainplane (3), elevator aerodynamic surfaces (4) and a front canard empennage adjustable in orientation. This airplane includes: a device for calculating (14) continuously receiving measurements: of the speed (V) of the airplane with r... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5542625 | Gull wing aircraft A vehicle, lacking an empennage, has a gull wing with ailerons movably mounted at the trailing edges of the wing for controlling pitch, yaw and roll, or has a wing and a gull tail with flaps movably mounted at the trailing edges of the tail surface for co... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5322243 | Separately banking maneuvering aerodynamic control surfaces, system and method A maneuvering system for a flight vehicle rotates a lifting aerodynamic surface of the flight vehicle about an axis parallel with a direction of flight of the vehicle in a rotational direction corresponding to the desired change of flight direction to whi... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5201478 | Airplane efficiency, safety and utilization This invention involves a simple but radical approach to airplane design. Many advantages and benefits result therefrom including improved flight efficiency, better handling and control response, less tail area required, increased safety, increased utilit... | 04/13/1993 |
| 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 |
| 4813634 | Flying emergency ejection seat A flying emergency ejection seat for endangered airman to escape from distressed aircraft and to fly cross country in the seat to sanctuary of a more favorable environment for recovery having the following existing state-of-the-art non-flying seat surviva... | 03/21/1989 |
| 4746081 | Aircraft This invention relates to an aircraft having three lift surfaces, and precisely a main wing lift surface located in an intermediate position of the aircraft and two less extended lift surfaces positioned, respectively, in a position ahead of the main wing... | 05/24/1988 |
| 4037808 | Travelling tail-unit with circular arc motion Aircraft having subsonic and supersonic flight capabilities which utilize travelling tail units with circular arc motions, connected with the rear fuselage by means of two arm-frames that swing upward and rearward and vice versa, to generally increase sta... | 07/26/1977 |
| 4010920 | Apparatus and method to control forward control surface type aircraft in flight The control surface-type wing, forward of the center of gravity of the aircraft is placed to be shiftable longitudinally with respect to the center of gravity of the aircraft and also adjustable with respect to a transverse and longitudinal axis of the ai... | 03/08/1977 |
