Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft – heavier-than-air – Airplane sustained
Patent
1979-03-05
1986-07-08
Barefoot, Galen L.
Aeronautics and astronautics
Aircraft, heavier-than-air
Airplane sustained
244 36, 244 45R, 244 91, 244199, 244218, 244130, B64C 126, B64C 354, B64C 358, B64C 3910
Patent
active
045988854
ABSTRACT:
An airplane airframe having wings connected to the fuselage by spars of smaller cross section than the wings. Movable winglets may be provided at the outboard ends of the wings. The fuselage may be an airfoil shaped lifting body structure with longitudinal splines at its edges. The splines may be movable in flight, and may be provided with flaps which are also movable in flight so that the splines can be readjusted to alter the aerodynamic characteristics of the airframe during flight. The undersurface of the fuselage may include cambers symmetrical about the center plane of the fuselage.
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Gulfstream III, Gulfstreamer, vol. 5, No. 6, Winter 1976.
Barefoot Galen L.
Waitzman Simon V.
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