Motor-glider (US Patent 4088285)

Patent number: 4088285 Granted: 1978-05-09 Filed: 1976-09-15 Inventors: Itsushi Sogabe (Yokohama, JP); Kiyoshi Souda (Yokohama, JP) Assignees: Japan Aircraft Manufacturing Co., Inc. (JP)

Abstract

In a motor-glider provided with a propeller power system fully encased within the fuselage thereof, outer shapes of the elements adapted for selectively closing air-intakes and, when required, an outlet are designed quite flush with the streamlined shapes of the surrounding portions of the motor-glider and the air is ejected in directions away from the tail