Lighter-than-air aircraft with air cushion landing gear means

Details Lighter-than-air aircraft with air cushion landing gear means Lighter-than-air aircraft with air cushion landing gear means

2006-05-09

2006-05-09

Luu, Teri Pham (Department: 3644)

Aeronautics and astronautics

Landing gear

C244S030000, C244S10000R

Reexamination Certificate

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07040572

ABSTRACT:
A lighter-than-air aircraft (1) having a gas-filled hull (2) and a pair of spaced apart landing gear units (11, 12) on the underside of the hull arranged on opposite sides of a longitudinally extending central vertical plane of the hull. Each landing gear unit (11, 12) comprises bag skirt means (5–7, 5′–7′), means for supplying air to and removing air from the bag skirt means and actuating means operable to move the bag skirt means between an operative configuration for containing one or more air cushions and an inoperative configuration.

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