Improvements in aircraft

A technology of aircraft and fuselage, applied in the field of improvement of aircraft

Inactive Publication Date: 2010-03-24
TIGERFISH AVIATION PTY LTD
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Such a small "side edge" angle shortens the takeoff distance, but causes other major problems, such as rough driving in choppy water during takeoff, landing or taxiing

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[0111] The double pontoon aircraft disclosed in the US specification has a pair of pontoons which are retractable during flight. The retracted float arrangement should be adjacent to the aircraft fuselage if retrofitted, or retracted into the aircraft fuselage if incorporated into the aircraft during manufacture.

[0112] In some aspects, the invention relates to seaplanes that are functional without the twin floats.

[0113] Those skilled in the art will appreciate that one aspect of the invention may be used in combination with one or more other aspects. Furthermore, one or more of these aspects may be combined with the invention disclosed in the US specification. For convenience, various aspects of this specification will be discussed in conjunction with relevant supporting schematic diagrams. The description of the drawings is for the purpose of illustration, not to limit the scope of the various aspects of the invention.

[0114] It will be appreciated that in the US s...

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Abstract

A method of retrofitting retractable floats to an aircraft such as a floatplane. The aircraft considered have existing landing gear such as wheeled landing gear to equip said aircraft to optionally takeoff or land on a solid surface such as a beach or landing strip, the method including the steps of: a) mounting at least one float retraction arm to the aircraft; and b) attaching the floats to thefloat retraction arm. Each float includes an air travel position in which it is secured close to the float retraction arm mounting location and / or the fuselage, and a deployed position in which the float is lower than the existing landing gear. Tn following the float retraction paths of travel of the float retraction arm and the floats between the air travel and deployed positions, the floats do not interfere with the existing landing gear or its operation.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the improvement of aircraft. Among the many aspects of the invention, the invention is improved in some respects, that is, improvements or additions are made to aircraft equipped with fixed floats or retractable floats. [0002] Specification incorporated by reference [0003] The entire content of Australian Patent Application No. 2007900335, entitled "Improvement of Aircraft", is incorporated by reference into this application. [0004] The improvement of the present invention is embodied in the improvement or addition to the "double pontoon aircraft" disclosed in the US Patent No. 6,866,224. The entire contents of US Patent No. 6,866,244 (hereinafter referred to as "US specification") are hereby incorporated by reference into this application. Background technique [0005] None of the following references and descriptions to existing solutions or products should and will not be considered as a statement or acknowl...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): B64C25/54B64C25/10B64C25/66B64C35/00B64C37/00
CPCB64C25/66B64C35/00B64C25/54B64C25/10B64C35/008
Inventor 艾伦·约翰·史密斯格伦费尔·萨克森·鲁达克马太·泰特洛
Owner TIGERFISH AVIATION PTY LTD
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