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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:
Jun. 21, 1994
Filed:
Feb. 01, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
David R Stoy, Woodland Hills, CA (US);
Assignee:
Northrop Corporation, Los Angeles, US;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
244 / ; 244 / ; 244 / ; 244 88 ; 244 89 ; 244-324 ;
Abstract
A maneuvering system for a flight vehicle rotates a lifting aerodynamic surface of the flight vehicle about an axis parallel with a direction of flight of the vehicle in a rotational direction corresponding to the desired change of flight direction to which the vehicle is to be steered, while maintaining attitude stability of the flight vehicle by altering other aerodynamic surfaces of the vehicle.