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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:
Sep. 12, 1989
Filed:
Apr. 29, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jeffrey A Fisher, Huntsville, AL (US);
Assignee:
United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
244152 ; 244 / ; 244 93 ;
Abstract
A towable gliding flexible wing craft for hauling a payload including a passive control means for responding to deviations from level flight. The gliding wing craft comprises a gliding flexible wing, spreader bar, support means for securing said gliding flexible wing to said spreader bar, a bridled tow line secured to said spreader bar for towing said gliding craft, means for securing said payload to said spreader bar and control means for causing wing tip lift or control dragulation of said wing. The control means is capable of passively responding in an opposing manner to deviations from level flight resulting in substantially level flight.