Steam-powered aircraft

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1974-09-03

1976-01-06

Blix, Trygve M.

Aeronautics and astronautics

Aircraft, heavier-than-air

Helicopter or auto-rotating wing sustained, i.e., gyroplanes

244 1723, 416 20, B64C 2708, B64C 2716

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039306259

ABSTRACT:
A steam generator on the aircraft selectively delivers high-pressure steam to atmospheric discharge jets on a lift rotor and/or to peripheral jets on a forwardly-directed propulsion propeller. The propeller is enclosed by a hollow shroud into which the steam jets discharge so that the shroud acts both as a propeller efficiency-enhancing device and a steam condenser to permit recycling of the condensate.

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patent: 1637389 (1927-08-01), Peterson
patent: 1692397 (1928-11-01), Wagner
patent: 2575886 (1951-11-01), Myers
patent: 2659556 (1953-11-01), Doblhoff
patent: 2799353 (1957-07-01), Andrews
patent: 3050275 (1962-08-01), Kottsieper
patent: 3138349 (1964-06-01), Piasecki
patent: 3752418 (1973-08-01), Rosta

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