Aircraft with its fuselage suspended under the wing
AssigneeAirubus Operations
InventorsOlivier Cazals, Thierry Druot
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AssigneeAirubus Operations
InventorsOlivier Cazals, Thierry Druot
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An aircraft displaying a fuselage, a wing attached to the fuselage in an upper part and in a middle part along the length of the fuselage, a set of airfoils situated behind the wing and propulsion engines mounted on the wing. The wing, the set of airfoils and the propulsion engines are solidly fastened to an air propulsion unit that is affixed to the fuselage by a connection system permitting the controlled modification in flight of the position of the air propulsion unit relative to the fuselage in the three directions X, Y and Z of the reference aircraft and in rotation around the three directions X, Y and Z. The control of the relative movements of the air propulsion unit and fuselage permits an improved behavior in flight of the airplane and has advantages in the fabrication and operation of the plane.
An aircraft with which a marker aircraft is linked, determined by a longitudinal direction X oriented positively toward the front of the plane, a vertical direction Z perpendicular to direction X and oriented positively toward the bottom of the aircraft and a lateral direction Y perpendicular to the plane defined by the directions X and Z and oriented positively toward the right of the aircraft displays conventionally a fuselage, a wing affixed to the fuselage in an upper part and in a central part of the fuselage along the longitudinal axis X, a set of airfoils situated behind the wing and propulsion engines mounted on the wing, characterized in that the wing, the set of airfoils and the propulsion engines are part of a structural unit, said air propulsion unit being independent of the fuselage;
The aircraft according to claim, in which the displacements of the air propulsion unit relative to the fuselage are controlled for attenuating the effects of turbulence.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.