公开(公告)号：US5881970A

公开(公告)日：1999-03-16

申请号：US434981

申请日：1995-05-04

申请人： Carl Wayne Whitesides

发明人： Carl Wayne Whitesides

IPC分类号： B64B1/02 ,  B64B1/36 ,  B64C1/34 ,  B64C29/04 ,  B64C15/02

CPC分类号： B64C29/04 ,  B64B1/02 ,  B64B1/36 ,  B64C1/34

摘要： An aircraft with automated means to transport. Spherical or one of its segments, without airfoils for lift or guidance. Means for flight are housed within the aircraft. The outer-most sureface is configured to disrupt the air-flow, over its surfaces, in flight. This, to reduce skin-friction and drag coefficients, and mollify heat build-up on the skins outer surfaces as speeds increase to and beyond mach 1. The weight of gas per unit volume, with temperature variations, is the means to reduce the gross-weight and adjust for temperature and weight changes during flight. Propulsion, within the propulsion component, is provided by turbojet engines. They are secured within an inner compression pod and an outer combustion pod. The compression pod and the attached vertical-air-duct, rotate through three hundred sixty degrees, as the means for directional guidance and direct thrust. Augmented power-thrust-tubes extend outward from the combustion pod to the mid-horizontal circumference of the aircraft. Control baffles, on each thrust-tube, check, deflect and regulate the engines' thrust to control the motivity of the aircraft. Struts retract for flight and are extended for landing. These electro-hydraulic struts, level, raise and lower the aircraft for direct ground level support operations. The aircraft has the means to maintain a horizontal flight attitude. For flight aptness the aircraft has an internal, mechanical and scientific means, for vertical ascent and vertical descent without horizontal motivity, to hover and maintain a position and altitude. And during horizontal flight, climb and descend, and perform heading changes. These flight means are all performed in the aircrafts' horizontal attitude.

摘要翻译： 一架具有自动化装置的飞机。 球形或其中一个段，没有用于升降或引导的翼型。 飞机的方式安置在飞机内。 最外面的表面配置为在飞行中破坏其表面上的空气流。 这是为了减少皮肤摩擦和阻力系数，并且随着速度增加到超过马赫1，在皮肤外表面上的热积累变得虚弱。每单位体积的气体重量与温度变化是减少毛重 重量，并适应飞行过程中的温度和重量变化。 在推进组件内的推进由涡轮喷气发动机提供。 它们固定在内部压缩舱和外部燃烧舱内。 压缩舱和连接的垂直风道，旋转三百六十度，作为定向导向和直接推力的手段。 增强的动力推力管从燃烧舱向外延伸到飞行器的中部水平周边。 控制挡板，在每个推力管上，检查，偏转和调节发动机的推力以控制飞机的动力。 Struts撤回飞行，并延长着陆。 这些电动液压支柱，水平，升高和降低飞机直接地面水平支持操作。 飞机有维持水平飞行姿态的手段。 对于飞行适应性，飞机具有内部，机械和科学的手段，用于垂直上升和垂直下降，没有水平动力，可以悬停并保持位置和高度。 在水平飞行中，爬升和下降，并执行航向变化。 这些飞行手段都是以飞机的横向姿态进行的。