Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft – heavier-than-air – Fluid sustained
Patent
1981-11-20
1984-07-03
Barefoot, Galen L.
Aeronautics and astronautics
Aircraft, heavier-than-air
Fluid sustained
244 52, 244 56, 60 3934, B64C 2900
Patent
active
044574762
ABSTRACT:
A wingless aircraft that has a generally truncated cone fuselage that has a cockpit in the upper thereof in which the pilot sits, and a transparent rigid dome mounted on the upper portion of the fuselage that extends over the pilot. A number of equally spaced, elongate, jet engine assemblies are pivotally and adjustably supported within the fuselage, with each engine in communication with an air inlet defined in the fuselage. Each jet engine assembly includes a combustion chamber that has an elongate tubular nozzle extending downwardly therefrom, in which exhaust openings are defined through which the hot gaseous products of combustion discharge. The exhaust openings are elongate and substantially angularly disposed relative to the vertical, and as a result the exhaust gases not only rotate the nozzle but exert a reactive force sufficient to lift the fuselage to an airborne position. Rotation of the nozzles results in concurrent rotation of fans that compress air entering the intakes prior to it being discharged to the combustion chambers to mix with atomized fuel and burned to produce the gases of combustion. Guidance of the aircraft is achieved by angular movement of the rotating nozzles relative to the fuselage.
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Babcock William C.
Barefoot Galen L.
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