Patent ID: 8066220

Claim:
A lift vehicle with a thrust vectoring system to generate even weight distribution, simple thrust vectoring, and hover stability, said lift vehicle, comprising: a. a lift vehicle with an air flow thrust generator mounted therein, said lift vehicle having a vertical and horizontal center gravity axis, said air flow thrust generator has an output exhaust port; b. a hollow, thrust diverter having a longitudinal axis that is longitudinally aligned with said output exhaust port on said air flow thrust generator; c. a stationary four way splitter located inside said diverter that divides exhaust from said air flow thrust generator air and delivered to said thrust diverter into four equal volumes; and, d. a balanced air exhaust duct apparatus attached to said diverter, said apparatus includes a vertical center axis aligned and registered with said longitudinal axis on said diverter, said apparatus includes four duct assemblies comprising two fixed, upward extending front air exhaust ducts and two fixed, upward extending rear air exhaust ducts, said front air exhaust ducts extending upward on opposite sides of said longitudinal axis of said diverter and said rear air exhaust ducts extending upward and parallel on opposite sides of said longitudinal axis of said diverter, said front air exhaust ducts and said rear air exhaust ducts being evenly space on opposite sides of said vertical center axis of said apparatus, each said front air duct and each said rear air duct includes a lower 90 degree arc, an upper arc that bends laterally and diagonally approximately 120 degrees and terminate to form a nozzle opening, said nozzle openings of said front air ducts and said rear air ducts being positioned at the same distance above and lateral to said longitudinal axis of said diverter.