AEROSTAT COMBINED FLYING VEHICLE Russian patent published in 1994 - IPC

FIELD: combined flying vehicles. SUBSTANCE: flying vehicle has an aerostat shell from a gas-proof material filled with a carrying gas, and a nacelle which is aircraft 4. The aerostat shell is made from two positioned one inside the other disk balloons 1, 2 from a heat-resistant material rigidly fastened to the upper surface of aircraft 4 by annular tubular frame 3. Inner balloon 1 is made multisectional and is filled with helium and compensates for 80-90% of the flight vehicle weight. The space between outer and inner balloons 2 and 1 is filled with a hot air heated by main engines of aircraft 4. The relative thickness of balloons 1, 2 is about 10% of their diameter. EFFECT: improved operational characteristics. 3 cl, 1 dwg