公开(公告)号：US5054713A

公开(公告)日：1991-10-08

申请号：US332489

申请日：1989-04-03

申请人： Lawrence W. Langley ,  Hal L. Moses

发明人： Lawrence W. Langley ,  Hal L. Moses

IPC分类号： B64C39/00

CPC分类号： B64C39/001 ,  B64C39/06

摘要： The invention is a circular airplane with an oblately spheroidal body which derives lift from a wall or ribbon jet exhausting over its upper surface. The jet is produced by a mixed flow fan driven by an internal combustion or gas turbine engine within the body. A fixed guide van assembly removes the swirl from the outlet flow of the mixed flow fan. The jet exiting from the fixed guide vane assembly follows the curved surface of the body, exhausting downward, and produces lift. The magnitude of lift produced in each quadrant of the airplane may be reduced for thrust vectoring by flow control gates which partially block the flow of air from the fixed guide vane assembly. Rotation control vanes introduce a controlled swirl into the flow of air from the fixed guide vane assembly to effect rotation of the airplane. Actuators for flow control gates and rotation control vanes, and a flight control system, are provided.

摘要翻译： 本发明是一种圆形飞机，其具有扁圆形球体，其从墙壁或带状喷射器的上表面排出升力。 喷气机是由内燃机或燃气涡轮发动机驱动的混流风扇产生的。 固定的导向装置组件从混合流动风扇的出口流中移除涡流。 从固定导向叶片组件射出的射流跟随身体的弯曲表面，向下排出并产生升力。 飞机每个象限产生的升力幅度可能会减小，以便通过流量控制闸门进行推力矢量控制，从而将部分阻挡来自固定导叶组件的空气流。 旋转控制叶片将受控的涡流引导到来自固定导叶组件的空气流中，以实现飞机的旋转。 提供了用于流量控制门和旋转控制叶片的执行器以及飞行控制系统。