Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft sustentation – Sustaining airfoils
Patent
1995-06-06
1999-01-26
Oberleitner, Robert J.
Aeronautics and astronautics
Aircraft sustentation
Sustaining airfoils
244 7R, 244 38, 244 39, 244104LS, B64C 338
Patent
active
058630139
ABSTRACT:
An improved VTOL/STOL free wing aircraft providing damping and absorption of shock landing loads upon landing. A pair of resilient struts is provided, projecting forwardly from the trailing edge of either side of the fuselage when the fuselage is tilted. Preferably, the aircraft includes a pair of articulated tail booms, the strut being a portion of the tail boom extending forward from the pivot axis of the tail boom. Landing wheels are disposed on the strut in tandem spaced relationship. The resiliency of the strut causes the strut to act as a leaf spring and thus dampen shock landing loads. Operatively secured to the bottom surface of the fixed wing portions and the forward portion of the landing gear struts is a pair of dashpots for absorbing the shock landing loads.
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Dinh Tien
Freewing Aerial Robotics Corporation
Oberleitner Robert J.
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