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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 1980
Filed:
Sep. 19, 1977
William B Nichols, Amarillo, TX (US);
Other;
Abstract
Process of landing an airplane on a solid landing surface covered with a layer of water comprising the steps of forming and maintaining a curtain of gas from a point forward and outboard of each of the landing wheels of an airplane on each side of the fuselage thereof to a point forward and central of the wheels and thereby displacing the water of the layer of water from the path of those landing wheels on that solid surface and later releasing the water from the curtain of gas at points lateral of each of the landing wheels while moving the gas curtain and airplane forward at a sufficiently high rate of speed to maintain the landing wheels in contact with the dry surface. Structural modifications of conventional cascade type thrust reversers and target type thrust reversers are provided to accomplish the steps of such process.