A multi-purpose mono-element airfoil is disclosed for aerodynamic and hydrodynamic vehicles and devices. The multipurpose mono-element highlift airfoil when utilized in an aerodynamic application provides a combined no-moving-parts high lift and cruise airfoil which in conjunction with a plenum, upon pressure initiation, causes pressurized air to issue from a slot tangent to the airfoil surface and remains attached to the airfoil's shaped trailing edge, providing a controlled resultant force of thrust. Upon application to hydrodynamic vehicles, the multi-purpose mono-element airfoil is placed in the freestream and provides turning or pitching forces to the vehicle without any deflection of itself or any mechnical components.
Mono-Element Combined Supercritical High Lift Airfoil
1981
6 pages
Report
No indication
English
Aircraft , Aerodynamics , Government Inventions for Licensing , Patents , Supercritical airfoils , High lift , Aerodynamic slots , Air flow , Pressurization , Plenum chambers , Circulation , Control , Augmentation , Supercritical wings , Trailing edges , Thrust , Multipurpose , Hydrodynamic control surfaces , PAT-CL-244-207 , CCW(Circulation Control Wings) , Monoelement high lift airfoils , Blowing slots
High lift airfoil design method, high lift airfoil and aircraft
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