VTOL Airplane

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1979-08-27

1981-10-27

Barefoot, Galen L.

Aeronautics and astronautics

Aircraft, heavier-than-air

Airplane and fluid sustained

244 55, 244 56, B64C 2900, B64C 1512

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042968968

ABSTRACT:
A VTOL airplane having a stub wing integrating a powerplant to either side of an airplane fuselage to rotatably relate the powerplant means to the airplane fuselage for uniform rotation, allow for flexible interconnecting design and lower the use of gravitational and aerodynamic moments in assistance of rotation of this powerplant/stub wing assembly.

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patent: 3360217 (1967-12-01), Trotter
patent: 3567157 (1971-03-01), Dancik
patent: 3966142 (1976-06-01), Corbett et al.
patent: 4149688 (1979-04-01), McMiller
"Fairchild Republic A-10", Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1977-1978, pp. 293-295.
Aircraft Engineering, Mar. 1970, p. 25.
"Application of Hypersonic Favorable Aerodynamic Interference Concepts to Supersonic Aircarft", Kulfan, AlAA Aircraft Sys. and Tech. Conf., Los Angeles, Calif. Aug. 21-23, 1978.

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