Patent ID: 8074922

Claim:
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: a plurality of stator permanent magnet levitation solenoids, by position and orientation, electromagnetically interactive with the rotor permanent magnet levitation solenoids during rotation of the motor rotor; a plurality of tractor solenoids, by position and orientation, electromagnetically interactive with the tractor coils during rotation of the motor rotor; a plurality of intermediate end effect magnetic field control electromagnets at each side of the tractor solenoids, for controlling a magnetic end effect of the tractor solenoids; and 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.