Airbus Invents Turning By Fuel?

[plugnik]

The patent is here

Hi folks. Paul Marks at New Scientist here. I wrote the Airbus patent news article to which this thread refers. I'll get the link to the patent put back in the original story (fell out somehow) but here you go anyway:

The US patent application is here: http://www.pat2pdf.org/patents/pat20090088911.pdf

If it has expired from the www.pat2pdf.org cache enter this patent number there: 20090088911

and it'll make you a PDF. What will they think of next?

I think this is a lot more Otto Lilienthal/Percy Pilcher than the Wright Brothers - who abhored leg-swinging/weight shifting as a means to control their gliders.

best

Paul