An aircraft has an airframe including a fuselage having major structural members made of a composite material. The airframe also includes a sweepforward main wing mounted on top of the fuselage and a T or cruciform tail on the fuselage. The aircraft has no canard. The aircraft has a pair of main landing gear units attached to the fuselage below the main wing, the main landing gear units having short strut assemblies which allow the crew and passengers to get on and off the aircraft easily. The s...

An aircraft capable of vertical take off and normal cruise flight has a fuselage and a pair of wings, the wings being movable relative to the fuselage from a rearwardly swept position to which the wings are moved for vertical take off, to a spread position to which the wings are moved for normal cruise flight.

This disclosure provides a solar rechargeable aircraft that is inexpensive to produce, is steerable, and can remain airborne almost indefinitely. The preferred aircraft is a span-loaded flying wing, having no fuselage or rudder. Travelling at relatively slow speeds, and having a two-hundred foot wingspan that mounts photovoltaic cells on most all of the wing's top surface, the aircraft uses only differential thrust of its eight propellers to turn. Each of five sections of the wing has one or mor...

The present invention concerns an aircraft having a plurality of lifting and thrust rotors, with an electric motor and an inverter for each motor. In order to provide an aircraft having a greater payload, connecting bars are provided between the motors. In that respect the invention is based on the realization that, if such connecting bars are arranged in the manner of a latticework, they can provide a light but nonetheless stable structure for the aircraft, and that structure can carry correspo...

An aircraft is composed of two elongated inflated, flexible tubes diverging from each other from a nose of the aircraft toward a trailing edge. First and second membranes span the upper and lower surfaces of the tubes respectively to provide upper and lower airfoil surfaces. One of the two membranes is connected to a length of cable extending from the tip end of one tube to the tip end of the other at the trailing edge. Trim is provided by a fixed flap composed of flexible membrane stretched bet...

An aircraft of the present invention has an envelope used in such an air balloon and/or airship. The aircraft can be in flated continuously to the envelope with supplying an air into the envelope without extending the envelope on the ground, and the envelope can be rolled up continuously into the gondola with an inside-out condition, as keeping the inflating condition of the envelope.

For an aircraft (1) having a balancing torque and including a motor-driven propeller (5) arranged on a central axis (3), and a useful load container (6), a solution should be provided which would insure that the aircraft is capable of carrying useful loads in a stable flying attitude and with simple control means. This is achieved by that the central propeller (5) driven by the drive motor (4), on one hand, and relative thereto, the motor (4) and/or torque-balancing means arranged thereon, on th...

An aircraft has an aircraft part with driving means and a body, and an impact reducing device which is movable between an inoperative position in which it is located close to the body and an operative position in which it is moved away from the body so as to first be subjected to impact against the ground and to dampen the impact, wherein the impact reducing device is formed as a plate-shaped element extending in a longitudinal direction of the body in a direction from a rear end to a front end,...

The invention concerns a land and flying vehicle with its tubular frame, 2 main rotors with blades and adjustable pitch-propellers, with its drive propelled by the force of a hydraulic turbine located at the end of its driving shaft. Said force is propelled by a very high pressure pump driven by an internal combustion engine or jet engine. Streamlined pusher propellers (already patented) located on the side are driven by hydraulic turbines located at the shaft end of rotating propellers from 0.d...

Aircraft, in particular a hang-glider, with a flexible wing and a pilot's position preferably arranged beneath it, from which space the aircraft can be controlled, wherein the trailing edge of the flexible wing can be locally raised and/or lowered by means of a transmission means leading from said trailing edge to the pilot's space.