Icon Aircraft, Inc.

Flarecraft Corporation

John Roncz

Jon Karkow

Matthew Gionta

Dieter Koehler

David Lednicer

William F Russell, Jr

A configuration and system for rendering an aircraft spin resistant is disclosed. Resistance of the aircraft to spinning is accomplished by constraining a stall cell to a wing region adjacent to the fuselage and distant from the wing tip. Wing features that facilitate this constraint include but are not limited to one or more cuffs, stall strips, vortex generators, wing twists, wing sweeps and horizontal stabilizers. Alone or in combination, aircraft configuration features embodied by the present invention render the aircraft spin resistant by constraining the stall cell, which allows control surfaces of the aircraft to remain operational to control the aircraft.

Spin resistant aircraft configuration

A ground effect vehicle wherein a flap coupled to a spoiler is provided on the wings in order to break lift when the craft starts to leave ground effect travel in order to avoid flight out of ground effect.

Spoiler system for ground effect vehicles

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Elkhart, IN, United States of America

John Roncz