Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft sustentation – Sustaining airfoils
Patent
1993-03-26
1996-08-06
Barefoot, Galen L.
Aeronautics and astronautics
Aircraft sustentation
Sustaining airfoils
244 45A, 244 89, B64C 316, B64C 504
Patent
active
055426255
ABSTRACT:
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 controlling pitch, yaw and roll.
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Burhans, Jr. Walter R.
Kirchbaum Nathan
Nastasi Richard F.
Barefoot Galen L.
Grumman Aerospace Corporation
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