Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft – heavier-than-air – Airplane and fluid sustained
Patent
1989-02-02
1990-07-17
Barefoot, Galen
Aeronautics and astronautics
Aircraft, heavier-than-air
Airplane and fluid sustained
244 23C, 244 73B, B64C 3906
Patent
active
049416286
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is a lift generating appartus for an aircraft which includes a generally circular principal wing with its peripheral portion bent downward, forming a bowl-shaped space opening downward; a high-pressure gas producing device provided on the principal wing; a plurality of jet nozzles provided within the central portion of the bowl-shaped space in a circular arrangement at angular intervals to jet a high-pressure gas produced by the high-pressure gas producing device radially outward from the central portion of the bowl-shaped space; and suction openings for sucking the external air as a secondary fluid from outside the bowl-shaped space by suction generated by the ejector effect of the high-pressure gas jetted from the jet nozzles. The supply of the secondary fluid into the bowl-shaped space in addition to the high-pressure gas further increases the static pressure within the bowl-shaped space, so that the lift acting on the principal wing is enhanced. The high-pressure gas jetting rate of each jet nozzle is regulated to produce a horizontal thrust for horizontal flight.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3020003 (1962-02-01), Frost et al.
patent: 3224711 (1965-12-01), Warren et al.
patent: 3243146 (1966-03-01), Clover
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Fukumoto Hirohiko
Kurosaka Toshio
Miyake Toshiya
Sakamoto Yujiro
Tokunaga Hirohiko
Barefoot Galen
Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
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