"MAN  THE  AIRCRAFT".  Configuration  of  the  individual  flight  vehicle.

Shulga V.I.

https://shulga.tripod.com/aircraftman/E.htm

The basic idea.

A pilot is placed horizontally, with face forward-downward. Figuratively speaking, the pilot lays on a carrying plane. Propellers (with engines) are removed ahead - over on the pylon-underframes forming a common structure with the fuselage nose (fig. 1). The pilot "gets on" his back a "motor knapsak".

Such configuration gives to pilot the wide, straight, direct, forward view of the earth surface which is the basic source of the information. Such configuration increases sensory acuity of flight.

Removal of propellers forward, direct connection of pylon-underframes to the fuselage nose creates a space-saving concentrated design which is capable to protect the pilot in emergencies.

Possible versions of the design.

1. To dispose engines on wings, near the fuselage. To transmit the rotation through a system of cardan shafts.

2. The design by the biplane scheme would be rather pertinent here. The upper wing, straight, smaller in the sizes than lower, could make a part of the supporting structure for engines and propellers.

3. Instead of pylon more low-cost girder structure is possible.

4. Within the framework of the given configuration, return to the initial - classical - sitting position of the pilot is possible.