Horizontal and vertical take off and landing unmanned aerial veh

Details Horizontal and vertical take off and landing unmanned aerial veh Horizontal and vertical take off and landing unmanned aerial veh

1996-09-06

1999-04-06

Jordan, Charles T.

Aeronautics and astronautics

Aircraft, heavier-than-air

Airplane and fluid sustained

244 121, 244 23B, B64C 2904

Patent

active

058904417

ABSTRACT:
A semiautonomously directed, autonomously controlled, gyroscopically stabilized, horizontal or vertical take off and landing (HOVTOL) flying apparatus employing two vertical lift devices equally and longitudinally spaced from the center of gravity of the apparatus; continuously integrated with a drive train apparatus, optional single or multiple power means; congruously connected thereto horizontal thrust devices. Integral to the vertical lift devices; pitch axis control devices situated at the exhaust orifices therein to vector said devices exhaust slip stream by a autonomous flight control system providing pitch stability. The autonomous flight control system providing continuously all flight control of the apparatus and said system being interfaced to a semiautonomous flight director device providing discrete flight direction function codes thereto. The combined effect of the apparatus is: When the power system rotates; coincident rotation of the drive train causes the vertical lift apparatus and horizontal thrust apparatus to counter rotate at right angles simultaneously providing both vertical lift and gyroscopic roll stability and simultaneously providing both horizontal thrust and gyroscopic yaw stability during flight; the continuous control thereof being accomplished by the autonomous flight control system and the directional steering, and function thereof in four axis effected by the semiautonomous flight director device which provides discrete flight function codes to the autonomous flight control system so as to disallow the initiation of negative flight maneuvers and/or functions providing for the safe unskilled pilot operation of the apparatus or any aircraft employing a autopilot having a autonomous digital flight control system.

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