B - Operations – Transporting – 64 – B
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
64
B
B64B 1/00 (2006.01) B60V 3/08 (2006.01) B64B 1/02 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2469201
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.
La présente invention se rapporte à un aéronef plus léger que l'air (1) comportant une coque (2) remplie de gaz et une paire d'unités (11, 12) de train d'atterrissage espacées l'une de l'autre, disposées sur la face inférieure de la coque, de part et d'autre d'un plan vertical central à extension longitudinale de la coque. Chaque unité de train d'atterrissage (11, 12) comprend un moyen (5-7, 5'-7') de type sac formant jupe, un moyen d'alimentation en air et d'extraction d'air dudit moyen de type sac formant jupe et un moyen d'actionnement pouvant être commandé de manière à faire passer le moyen de type sac formant jupe d'une configuration fonctionnelle permettant de contenir un ou plusieurs coussins d'air à une configuration non fonctionnelle et vice versa.
Advanced Technologies Group Limited
Hap Acquisitions Limited
Ridout & Maybee Llp
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