Really weird aerospace patents

A strange mothership airplane of 1927,carried a fighters,for Mr. R. F. Hall,
was he a designer for Bell company later ?.

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1927 Airplane Patent Drawing by Jon Neidert

1927 Airplane Patent Drawing Photograph by Jon Neidert
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hesham said:
A strange mothership airplane of 1927,carried a fighters,for Mr. R. F. Hall, was he a designer for Bell company later ?.
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The patent refers to "auxiliary airplanes" (rather than 'fighters'). And, of course, Hall had been working in aviation for a quarter of a century before he went to Bell ;)

Randolph Fordham Hall (1896-1974)

1916-1917 - Thomas Bros. Airplane Corp
1917 - Standard Aeronautical Corp.
1917-1919 - US Army Air Service Technical Branch
1920-1928 - Thomas-Morse Aircraft Corp.
1928-1941 - Cunningham-Hall Aircraft
- Co-founder with Francis E. Cunningham and William T. Thomas
1941-1959 - Bell Aircraft

BTW, R.F. Hall's younger brother was Ted (Theodore Parsons) Hall. Ted also worked at Thomas-Morse and Cunningham-Hall before going on to Consolidated Aircraft in 1931 as a structural engineer.
 
From Aero Digest 1939 & 1940.
 

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From Aero Digest 1939,

a strange tailless aircraft to Mr. Max M. Munk.
 

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KHambsch said:
T. A. Gardner said:
hesham said:
From Aero Digest 1939,

a strange tailless aircraft to Mr. Max M. Munk.
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Not too far off from the Stearman-Hammond YS-1

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I image things can get "weirder"...yes?
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Sure! The Y-1 was selected by the US Navy prior to WW 2 to be one of their premier target drones as the JH-1. It was used in AA gun testing and training from the late 1930's and resulted in the USN completely revising their AA gun training and doctrine because it proved existing doctrine ineffective.
 
hesham said:
From Aero Digest 1939 & 1940.
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The second one is the Zap flap - tested on a OS2U Kingfisher and used on the P-61 Black Widow. I have photos of the Kingfisher during testing - will dig those out and share.

Thanks! Mark
 
The W.E. Herrmann annular wing aircraft.

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From Aero Digest 1955,

a strange patent to C. G. Taylor.
 

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hesham said:
So weird,Emmons,this designer maybe related to a well known company ?.
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"Bell engineer, Paul Emmons was assigned the task of creating the basic aerodynamic layout of the X-2, including where the 40 degree swept wings would be placed on the fuselage."
-- Flypast, Vol. 49 No. 7, page 7

Paul C. Emmons was at the Bell Aircraft Corporation as early as September 1941 (NASA mentions him in Supplementary Spin Tests of a 1/20-Scale Model of the Bell XP-39E Airplane dated 31 August 1942). He was still filing patents on behalf of the Bell Aerospace Corporation in the '60s - eg: in 1963, Emmons filed patent US196088, Ground Effect Vehicle.
 
What was this ?.
 

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Flutter forced excitation via a mechanical oscillator.
An electrical engine generate the frequency of the oscillation and the paddle use airstream force to excite the wing spar (?).
If you would want to do that with the electrical engine, a much heavier set would have to be used, negating, perhaps in most case, the representative aspect of the test.
 
Here is Mr. M. Bugar of 1925.
 

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Hi Hesham,

hesham said:
From Aero Digest 1939,

a strange tailless aircraft to Mr. Max M. Munk.
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Munk actually was quite an accomplished aerodynamicist who had studied in Germany under Prandtl and played an important role at NACA in their early days:

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Max M. Munk

In recognition of the development of thin airfoil theory and the revolutionary Variable Density Wind Tunnel.
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Regards,

Henning (HoHun)
 
From Mr. Alan Griffith,a VTO aircraft.
 

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Not so weird,but it's a good patent from Norman D. Moore of 1972.
 

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Mr. L. E. Oliver seemed to consider that the more fuselages, the better!
 

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Does this mean North American would have had to pay him a license for the F-82?
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Unlikely, since the twin-fuselage formula was already extensively studied in various bomber proposals by James V. Martin between 1919 and 1922... Martin event kept at it in his 1939 Oceanplane and 1951 Flying Ship patent applications! Several others also considered twin-fuselage or twin-hull designs during the inter-war era.
 

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