US 11,851,216 B2
Air and space craft with enhanced lift
Charles Ronald Grigg, Westport, CA (US)
Filed by Charles Ronald Grigg, Westport, CA (US)
Filed on Jan. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/570,911.
Application 17/570,911 is a division of application No. 16/830,741, filed on Mar. 26, 2020, granted, now 11,254,450.
Application 16/830,741 is a continuation in part of application No. 15/637,922, filed on Jun. 29, 2017, granted, now 10,633,120, issued on Apr. 28, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/922,540, filed on Aug. 15, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/602,808, filed on May 8, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/601,821, filed on Apr. 3, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/601,356, filed on Mar. 20, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/499,759, filed on Feb. 6, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0297856 A1, Sep. 22, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B64C 1/26 (2006.01); B64G 1/26 (2006.01); B64G 1/40 (2006.01)
CPC B64G 1/26 (2013.01) [B64G 1/40 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
18. An aircraft comprising:
a fuselage consisting of an oblate spheroid portion that is symmetric about a central axis and a lift profile assembly extending laterally from a section of the oblate spheroid portion along a plane that is perpendicular to the central axis, the fuselage having an upper surface and a lower surface that define an airfoil shape in cross-section along a vertical plane such that horizontal movement of the fuselage through air generates a lift force in a vertical direction, the fuselage having a substantially oval shape in cross section along a horizontal plane;
four modules attached to the fuselage at locations within the substantially oval shape, each of the four modules including an upper jet engine directed above the upper surface of the fuselage and an opposed lower jet engine directed below the lower surface of the fuselage; and
a central controller configured to control pitch and yaw of the aircraft by changing thrust of the upper jet engine and the lower jet engine of each of the plurality of modules to thereby change a combined thrust vector of the plurality of modules.