In UK patent application 2266873, Mukdam Numan describes an aircraft, such as a cargo aircraft, which has a fuselage section that is detachable/ demountable/dischargeable so that the remainder of the aircraft can be used to fly laden or unladen to another destination while the removed fuselage section/road haulage trailer is towed away to the terminus, etc., or on to the open road as a normal rigid box trailer. The trailer/cargo container is mounted and releasably attached to the aircraft. The aircraft has forward swept rear wings above rearward swept front wings, with jet engines mounted between the overlapping wing tips.
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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology ; 66 , 4 ; 31
1994-04-01
1 pages
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