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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2005
James R. Quartarone, Boulder, CO (US);
James R. Quartarone, Boulder, CO (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A helicopter having a torque-correcting thruster device. The helicopter has an aerodynamic body which has opposite side portions, a top portion and a bottom portion. The aerodynamic body has a cockpit and a pilot seat in the cockpit. The helicopter includes landing gear attached to the bottom portion of the aerodynamic body. The helicopter includes a rotor that is supported by the aerodynamic body and a rotor blade attached to the rotor, and a thruster device operative on one of the side portions of the aerodynamic body to produce an aft-directed thrust that counteracts the torque produced by rotation of the rotor blade so as to control the yaw of the helicopter. The aft-directed thrust simultaneously supplements the forward thrust of the helicopter.