METHOD OF GLIDING AND GLIDE VEHICLE Russian patent published in 2010 - IPC B64C5/00 

FIELD: transport.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to aircraft engineering. Proposed method consists in that aircraft aerodynamic surface is made symmetrically convertible in the form of tandem duck by arranging additional v-like tail unit at aircraft nose. Gliding is distinguished by intermittent variation of flight direction, back-and-forth, in conditions of pendulum parametric resonance with periodically lowered suspension point along stable flat zigzag trajectory made up of wave-like glide-path sections. Under ground effect, aircraft vertical landing if performed with critical angles of attack of aircraft aerodynamic surfaces.

EFFECT: shorter landing ground run.

4 cl, 4 dwg