Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft power plants – Arrangement
Reexamination Certificate
2007-04-03
2007-04-03
Dinh, Tien (Department: 3644)
Aeronautics and astronautics
Aircraft power plants
Arrangement
Reexamination Certificate
active
10310415
ABSTRACT:
A solar rechargeable, long-duration, span-loaded flying wing, having no fuselage or rudder. Having a two-hundred foot wingspan that mounts photovoltaic cells on most all of the wing's top surface, the aircraft uses only differential thrust of its eight propellers to turn, pitch and yaw. The wing is configured to deform under flight loads to position the propellers such that the control can be achieved. Each of five segments of the wing has one or more motors and photovoltaic arrays, and produces its own lift independent of the other segments, to avoid loading them. Five two-sided photovoltaic arrays, in all, are mounted on the wing, and receive photovoltaic energy both incident on top of the wing, and which is incident also from below, through a bottom, transparent surface.
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Kendall Greg T.
Lisoski Derek L.
Aerovironment Inc.
Dinh Tien
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