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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 1981
Filed:
Aug. 27, 1979
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert W Kress, Lloyd Harbor, NY (US);
Anthony C Bacchi, Massapequa, NY (US);
Assignee:
Grumman Aerospace Corporation, Bethpage, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C / ; B64C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
244 124 ; 244 55 ; 244 56 ;
Abstract
A VTOL airplane having a stub wing integrating a powerplant to either side of an airplane fuselage to rotatably relate the powerplant means to the airplane fuselage for uniform rotation, allow for flexible interconnecting design and lower the use of gravitational and aerodynamic moments in assistance of rotation of this powerplant/stub wing assembly.