Patent ID: 6824097
Filing Date: 2004-11-30
Classification: B64C,B64D,F02K,Y02T

Abstract:
An aircraft adapted for covert deployment and low vulnerability to hostile detection and aggression, said aircraft comprising:a fuselage having a pair of sidewalls and a bottom adapted to form an armored payload bay; a pair of wings connected to the fuselage, the wings adapted to allow the aircraft to be transported within a larger aircraft; wherein each sidewall includes at least one pulse ejector thrust augmentor (PETA) bank that includes a Plurality of interconnected pulsejets, each PETA bank canted outward such that a thrust exhaust produced by each PETA bank is directed down and outwardly away from a centerline of the payload bay; and wherein the bottom is adapted to allow ingress and egress of cargo from the payload bay.