Tanker aircraft for long-distance travel
AssigneeJetZero, Inc.
InventorsMark Allan Page, John Charles Vassberg, Blaine Knight Rawdon
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Abstract
A tanker aircraft for long-distance travel, the tanker aircraft including a blended wing body having a main body, a transition, and wings with no clear demarcation between the wings and the main body along a leading edge of the tanker aircraft, a fuel storage located within the blended wing body, the fuel storage comprising a first fuel store, the first fuel store located within the transition and configured for long range flight and a second fuel store the second fuel store having a tanker capacity and a refueling boom system having a flying boom, the flying boom extending from the blended wing body, wherein the tanker aircraft is a long-range tanker aircraft.
Claims16
A tanker aircraft for long-distance travel, the tanker aircraft comprising:
- a blended wing body having a main body, a transition, and wings with no demarcation between the wings and the main body along a leading edge of the tanker aircraft;
- a cargo store;
- a fuel storage comprising a first fuel store and a second fuel store;
- an interior cavity within the main body having a single deck, wherein at least a portion of the cargo store and the second fuel storage are located on or above the single deck;
- wherein the fuel storage is located within the blended wing body,
- wherein the first fuel store is located within the transition and is configured to extend flight range;
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- wherein the second fuel store comprises a tanker capacity;
- a refueling boom system having a flying boom, wherein the flying boom is configured to extend from the blended wing body, wherein the flying boom further comprises at least a flight control surface with a V-tail configuration;
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- a fuel offloading system;
- wherein the tanker aircraft is a long-range tanker aircraft.
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