Patent ID: 6070831
Filing Date: 2000-06-06
Classification: B64C

Abstract:
Aircraft for carrying passengers and/or freight based on a known aircraft design, with a fuselage having a nose section, center section, and tail section and with airfoils mounted on the center section close to the center of gravity of the aircraft and calculated according to the required lift, and with vertical and/or horizontal stabilizers provided in the vicinity of the tail section to produce stabilizing and steering moments, characterized in that in order to increase the carrying capacity of the aircraft on the basis of the known aircraft design, the fuselage of said aircraft is stretched by means of an additional section inserted between the nose section and the center of gravity of the aircraft, and the additional section, as viewed in the direction of flight, is provided ahead of the airfoils of the aircraft design that serve as the main airfoils, with airfoils that serve as additional airfoils, with previously designed and calculated airfoils of suitable size from a known aircraft design being used as the additional airfoils, and in that the fuselage of the aircraft is composed of modules and comprises a module forming the nose section, a module forming the tail section, a plurality of modules forming a center section, and a module forming the additional section, with the main airfoils being mounted on one of the modules that form the center section.