Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft – heavier-than-air – Airplane sustained
Patent
1982-06-24
1985-01-22
Barefoot, Galen L.
Aeronautics and astronautics
Aircraft, heavier-than-air
Airplane sustained
244 121, 244 36, 244130, 244 55, B64C 116, B64C 2304
Patent
active
044947135
ABSTRACT:
A shockcone and channeled disk-airframe having a top airfoil disk and lower airfoil disk comprising a wedge perimeter extending from the forward nose of a shockcone and therearound the leading edge to the trailing edge of an airframe body wherein the lower part of disk-airframe has a plurality of bottomwardly opened channels extending from the leading to the trailing edge whereto providing the channel walls. The disk-airframe has a plurality of inclined rudders operatively coupled to the vertical fins located rear on both sides of the top airfoil disk-airframe. The airframe is mushroom in sectional shape; the stem of the mushroom is the lower part of a disk-airframe and forms the depth of the fuselage and the walls of channels and the cap of the mushroom is the top airfoil disk which is convex from the wedge perimeter of the airframe within the upper part and providing the cargo space of a disk-airframe. The size of the channels is a minimum 50 percent of the width of the disk-airframe. The channel is parallel from the inlet to one third the length of the channel enabling the mounting of variable volume power plants which are producing a flattened thrust stream. Also, the channel is divergent from adjacent the end of power plant to the outlet of the channel to accommodate the expansion of the high velocity thrust stream passing through the diverging contours of the channel to produce an aerodynamic, lift-thrust generating system for the airframe.
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Barefoot Galen L.
Meaney, Jr. Daniel J.
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