Lighter-than-air aircraft with air cushion landing gear means
CA 2469201 C · Owner: Advanced Technologies Group Limited · Inventors: Munk, Jeffrey Roger
Overview
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A lighter-than-air aircraft (1) having a gas-filled hull (2) and a pair of spaced apart landing gear units (11, 12) on the underside of the hull arranged on opposite sides of a longitudinally extending central vertical plane of the hull. Each landing gear unit (11, 12) comprises bag skirt means (5-7 5'-7'), means for supplying air to and removing air from the bag skirt means and actuating means operable to move the bag skirt means between an operative configuration for containing one or more air cushions and an inoperative configuration.
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- Filed December 5, 2002 and granted June 26, 2012. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 5, 2022.
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