Patent ID: 6412731
Filing Date: 2002-07-02
Classification: B64C,B64D

Abstract:
A light-weight aircraft with a fuselage, wings, belly and a lifting provision to provide roll axis control of the aircraft, when needed, to avoid a rolling over and a loss of control of said aircraft, said lifting provision including a rate-of-turn sensor, and a plurality of solenoid-operated air valves, each of said air valves having an inlet port and outlet port and a solenoid operator for selectively closing and opening said air valves, said air valves receiving their air from the atmosphere of said aircraft in flight by having each of their inlet ports facing the front of said aircraft, while having each of said outlet ports facing vertically down for selectively blasting out air to provide sufficient lift to the appropriate wing of said aircraft after the opening of a selected air valve by its associated solenoid operator; said lifting provision also including a first electrical control circuit, said electrical control circuit including a voltage supply, a remotely operated relay, coils of said solenoids and two manual switches, said remotely operated relay having its circuit closed by the output of a rate-of-turn sensor, the first of said two switches for by-passing said relay, the second of said two switches for opening the electrical circuit to make said lifting provision inoperative, said control system being identical for both wings of the aircraft, said air valves enabling the transfer of the energy from the aircraft's forward motion to the energy of lifting an aircraft's wing.