Patent ID: 7077358

Claim:
A helicopter comprising: an aerodynamic body having opposite side portions, a top portion and a bottom portion, the aerodynamic body having a cockpit: a pilot seat in the cockpit; landing gear attached to the bottom portion of the aerodynamic body; a rotor supported by the aerodynamic body, the rotor having a portion extending from the top portion of the aerodynamic body; rotor blades attached to the portion of the rotor that extends from the top portion of the aerodynamic body, the rotor blades rotating above the aerodynamic body wherein rotation of the rotor blades produces a torque; and a thruster device operative on one of the side portions of the aerodynamic body to produce an aft-directed thrust that counteracts the torque to control a yaw of the helicopter and supplement forward thrust of the helicopter wherein the thruster device includes an air intake port and an exhaust port, and wherein the thruster device is incorporated into the aerodynamic body, the aerodynamic body having openings therein that are aligned with the air intake and exhaust ports of the thruster device.