Patents Represented by Attorney H. Gus Hartman
  • Patent number: 4828204
    Abstract: A twin-engine supersonic airplane having an arrow-shaped wing and an elongated fuselage extending approximately equally forward and rearward of the wing. The fuselage is configured for six passengers in a staggered two-abreast seating arrangement and for two pilots seated in tandem. A forebody section of the fuselage, which extends substantially forward of the wing, is of a specific geometric cross-sectional design, i.e., it is an egg-shaped cross section with opposite sidewalls sloping vertically inward in an upward direction. The sidewalls are only of a single curvature in a fore-and-aft direction, and this substantially flat surface has windows installed therein which have an optically flat surface in order that a minimum of visual distortion is produced due to thermal expansion during supersonic flight. Twin vertical stabilizers are spaced apart and each is mounted near a wing tip; and the stabilizers extend both vertically above and below the wing chord plane for functioning as wing tip end plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1989
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Gottfried O. Friebel