HORIZONTAL LANDING ARRANGEMENT FOR A FLYING BODY

摘要

A flying body such as an aircraft or a re-entry vehicle is enabled to land substantially horizontally with the aid of one or several glider parachutes also referred to as paragliders, which are stored in an upper body zone and ejected during the landing. The lift capacity of the paraglider is so dimensioned that it replaces the lift loss of the wings due to the low landing speed, whereby the weight of the flying body is kept in equilibrium to the sum of the wing lift and of the paraglider lift. The paraglider resistance or drag is compensated by the engine thrust and an ascending or descending flight is accomplished by modulating the engine thrust.