THERMOPLANE Russian patent published in 2004 - IPC

FIELD: lighter-than-air aircraft.

SUBSTANCE: the thermoplane has a ballonet with an internal flow-through passage and a vertical trunk with an air conduit, wind-force power generating system including an electric generator and a wind propeller consisting of the upper wind-receiving and lower air-flowing blades fastened on the shaft of the electric generator installed in the lower part of the ballonet vertical trunk. Provision is made for electric heating elements for heating of the air injected to the ballonet, sustainer electric motor with a multiblade propeller positioned in the internal flow-through passage of the ballonet, the upper and lower hatches for adjustment of the flight altitude, the front and rear brake flaps hinge-mounted on the starboard and port side at the inlet and outlet of the brake air conduits built-in in parallel with the board wall of the ballonet. The wind propeller is provided with a device for self-balancing at rotation made in the form of a horizontal hollow ring, whose inner cavity is partially filled with a non-solidifying liquid, and a centrifugal angle-of-attack control of the wind-receiving blades, whose lower ends in the front section are hinge-joined by pull rods, with the weights of the centrifugal control movably fastened in their middle part on the outside.

EFFECT: improved ecology.

2 cl, 2 dwg