Controlling aircraft aerial movements, defeating icing on aircraft surfaces, aiding decontamination, and damping turbulence effects on aircraft by the method of micro-perforated airfoil coordinated precision flow management

摘要

A method is provided whereby airplanes or any device with the functionality and usefulness of an airplane may be controlled without the use of any traditional effectors, such as flaps, rudders, ailerons, spoilers, and all like hinged, moveable airfoils attached to a wing or a fuselage. The means of controlling such airplanes while in flight will be by controlling the laminar air flow over all lifting surfaces so as to vary the amount and quality of the lift provided. All lifting surfaces on the airplane will be divided into dozens, hundreds, or thousands of small zones, each of which can be readily controlled by a central flight computer and each of which is capable of modifying its immediate airflow condition, whether that be laminar flow or some particular degree and variety of local eddy current. Summing over all the inputs of conditions above the multitude of zones, the central flight computer will possess algorithms and programs suitable to effect any desired change in attitude, altitude, orientation, and course of the airplane that is desired.