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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2009
Applicants:
Kevin Reed Lutke, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Aaron Jonathan Kutzmann, Long Beach, CA (US);
Inventors:
Kevin Reed Lutke, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Aaron Jonathan Kutzmann, Long Beach, CA (US);
Assignee:
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 1/00 (2006.01); B64C 3/00 (2006.01); B64C 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for deploying an aircraft. An inflation system is activated to generate a gas. A fuselage of the aircraft is inflated with the gas. The fuselage comprises a frame for the aircraft and a number of flexible layers associated with the frame in which the number of flexible layers are configured to define a volume for at least a portion of the aircraft when the number of flexible layers are in an inflated configuration.