Patent ID: 6098923
Filing Date: 2000-08-08
Classification: B64C,Y02T

Abstract:
An aircraft structure to improve directional stability comprising:a fuselage;a wing mounted to said fuselage;a horizontal stabilizer mounted to a bottom of said fuselage, rearward of and at a lower level than said wing, said horizontal stabilizer having trailing edges on opposite side of said fuselage, each trailing edge having an outboard junction with a tip of said horizontal stabilizer and an inboard junction with said fuselage, wherein said horizontal stabilizer sweeps backward;a forwardly sweeping right directional stabilizer spanning between said wing and said horizontal stabilizer on a right side of said fuselage and canted outboardly and having a movable control surface on a trailing edge of said right vertical stabilizer; anda forwardly sweeping left directional stabilizer spanning between said wing and said horizontal stabilizer on a left side of said fuselage and canted outboardly and having a movable control surface on a trailing edge of said left directional stabilizer.