A wingless aircraft has an elongated fuselage with a nose and an aft end. The fuselage encompasses an air duct, and this air duct has a main portion extending rearwardly from a frontal inlet in the nose and dividing into a first branch that extends laterally to a side outlet and a second branch that extends longitudinally through the fuselage to an aft outlet. Substantially all of the lateral cross-sectional area of this nose is the inlet of the main portion, with the first branch being substantially larger than the second branch. Air-propelling means are mounted within the main portion, and controllable air-deflecting vanes are mounted within the outlets.
U.S. Patent Specifications
Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology ; 32 , 4 ; 124
1960-04-01
1 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Emerald Group Publishing | 1959
Emerald Group Publishing | 1959
Emerald Group Publishing | 1959
Emerald Group Publishing | 1958
Emerald Group Publishing | 1957