Air-borne support and lift mechanism adapted to aircraft

An apparatus for producing lift for a flying vehicle, comprising a top deck of a flying vehicle having one or more shallow cylindrical wells inset thereinto, each well having a cylindrical wall and a sealed floor, a disc in each well adapted and powered for rotating therein with restricted peripheral clearance from the wall and from the sealed floor of said well, said disc being generally parallel to said top deck of said vehicle, said disc's upper face having a plurality of cambered convexities symmetrically distributed thereupon, said well's cylindrical wall extending upwardly higher than and thus shielding said cambered convexities from an airstream which may be produced on said top deck of said flying vehicle, the wall of said well having operational ports susceptible of being rapidly opened to any desired degree and rapidly closed at will by operator, and said ports when open communicating said well with atmosphere below said flying vehicle as lift spoiler means, the entire assembly constituting a first embodiment of a regulatable mechanism to provide lift and airborne support to an appropriate vehicle.