US Patent Issued to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS on Feb. 18 for "Rotorcraft provided with an airframe carried by a skid landing gear with zones for taking up variable forces" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,289, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS (Marignane, France).

"Rotorcraft provided with an airframe carried by a skid landing gear with zones for taking up variable forces" was invented by Olivier Honnorat (Aix en Provence, France), Nicolas Genelot (Coudoux, France) and Jerome Benausse (La Verdiere, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotorcraft provided with a rotary wing and a skid landing gear, the landing gear being provided with a first skid and a second skid and with a first cross-member and a second cross-member. The first cross-member is connected to an airframe of the rotorcraft only by two fastenings. ...