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Solar powered wing vehicle using flywheels for energy storage

  • US 8,002,216 B2
  • Filed: 06/13/2008
  • Issued: 08/23/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2007
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An aircraft comprising:

  • a horizontally extending wing section;

    a plurality of solar collecting cells disposed on at least a top surface of said horizontal extending wing section;

    at least one motor electrically connected to said plurality of solar collecting cells and disposed within or on said horizontal extending wing section that is engaged onto a propeller that provides propulsion;

    at least one motor/generator electrically connected to said plurality of solar collecting cells and coupled to at least two sets of counter-rotating pairs of flywheels means for a function to store and discharge energy that provides said propulsion wherein said flywheels are oriented with their spin axis along or perpendicular to the pitch axis of said horizontally extending wing section, andwherein angular inertia from at least one flywheel is combined with thrust from said propeller to steer said aircraft.

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