Patents by Inventor Richard J. Schoolcraft

Richard J. Schoolcraft has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4464116
    Abstract: This invention provides a helicopter flight training device. The device comprises, in combination, a free-flying, radio-controlled, scale model of a helicopter and a flight station that is a substantially actual size simulation of a helicopter cockpit with its associated individual flight controls. The individual flight controls of the flight station incorporate means to convert their operation into a radio signal transmitted to the scale model helicopter to actuate the appropriate flight controls therein to control the flight thereof. In a preferred embodiment of this invention, the flight station consists of dual flight stations with dual flight controls to facilitate teaching student pilots. The device of this invention provides the utmost in safety to the student and instructor during the early, most hazardous, stages of flight training.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 7, 1984
    Assignee: Helicopter Training Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard J. Schoolcraft