Patent ID: 8292225
Filing Date: 2012-10-23
Classification: B64C,Y02T

Abstract:
1. An airplane including a fuselage having a shape elongated along the longitudinal axis X of the airplane positively oriented towards the front of the airplane and including at least one wing fixed to the fuselage between a front end and a rear end of said fuselage, the fuselage including a substantially cylindrical central part and a rear tapered part on which a vertical empennage is fixed, wherein, between a section connecting the rear part with the central part of the fuselage and the rear end: a maximum width of each section of the fuselage is constant or increasing rearwards in the direction of the negative X up to a maximum width L of the fuselage; a height of each section of the fuselage is decreasing rearwards in the direction of the negative X, so that to have a shape progressively flattening rearwards and that the rear end of the fuselage forms a trailing edge having a small thickness which is substantially horizontal in an airplane reference system and substantially rectilinear through the width L.