Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft – heavier-than-air – Airplane and fluid sustained
Patent
1987-06-22
1989-07-18
Barefoot, Galen
Aeronautics and astronautics
Aircraft, heavier-than-air
Airplane and fluid sustained
244207, 244 73R, B64C 2108
Patent
active
048487015
ABSTRACT:
A fixed wing airplane having a turbofan engine mounted within its fuselage is equipped with communicating air-handling chambers, and pivoted panels positioned in the upper surfaces of the wings and stabilizers. The arrangement of air-handling chambers and pivoted panels supplies high velocity air through discharge slots tangentially to the upper surfaces of the wings and stabilizers, and air inducting slots on the same surfaces downstream from the discharge slots. Such manner of function causes a boundary layer of air to cling tightly to the upper surfaces, and this effect provides reduced pressure that produces vertical lift. Once in forward horizontal flight, the various components of the airplane function in conventional manner.
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Barefoot Galen
Rainer Norman B.
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