Patent ID: 8074922
Filing Date: 2011-12-13
Classification: B64C

Abstract:
1. A flying craft comprising: an aircraft structure supporting therein a twin pair of coaxially mounted electrokinetic motor-generators; each of the motors providing: a motor rotor providing a fan having radial fan blades, each of the fan blades terminating at opposing ends thereof with rotor levitation solenoids; the motor rotor further providing a plurality of tractor coils each fully embedded within one of a plurality of radial slots in a ferromagnetic material of the motor rotor, the slots and the tractor coils arranged in a circle in spaced apart positions on the motor rotor; a motor stator secured by a plurality of radially oriented struts, the struts engaging: an electrical power supply circuit providing a pulsed electrical current to the stator levitation solenoids and the tractor solenoids, the power supply circuit including a controller for synchronizing rotation between the pair of coaxially mounted motors.