"LIGHTER-THAN-AIR AIRCRAFT WITH AIR CUSHION LANDING GEAR MEANS"
Application 1904/DELNP/2004 published 2007-04-06, filed 2004-07-02
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.
Applicant
1)ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES GROUP LIMITED,
:HANGAR 2, CARDINGTON FIELD, SHORTSTOWN, BEDFORD, BERDFORDSHIRE MK42 OTJ, GREAT BRITAIN, U.K.
Inventor
1)MUNK, JEFFREY, ROGER; No of Pages : 10 No of Claims : 7
International Info
Classification: B64B1/00
Publication Number: WO 03/047967 A1
Application Date: 2002-12-05
Priority Information
0129153.3 U.K. 2001-12-05