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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2011
Brian Herman Morgan, Ootsburg, WI (US);
David Leroy Hagen, Goshen, IN (US);
Brian Herman Morgan, Ootsburg, WI (US);
David LeRoy Hagen, Goshen, IN (US);
Morgan Aircraft, LLC, Ootsburg, WI (US);
Abstract
Control surfaces in an aircraft attitude control configuration provide attitude control for an aircraft at hover or low air speed conditions. The aircraft attitude control configuration includes thrusters mounted to an aircraft, a first control surface kinematically coupled to the aircraft downstream of a first thruster to enable a first vector force to be generated by a portion of thrusted air from the first thruster on the first control surface, and a second control surface kinematically coupled to the aircraft of a second thruster. The control surfaces are displaced symmetrically a longitudinal axis of the aircraft. The control surfaces are independently and differentially movable with respect to each other to enable generation of a second vector force by a portion of thrusted air from the second thruster on the second control surface.