Aircraft, battery and battery-carrying means, wherein the conductive wires serve as manipulating wires

Claim 1

A controllable toy aircraft self-propelled by a fractional horsepower electric motor disposed forwardly in the fuselage of the aircraft and including bow blade means, transmission means interposed between the motor and said blade means to transmit motor drive thereto, transversely extending elevator means parallel with, and rearwardly of, the aircraft horizontal stabilizer and hingedly connected thereto, a single central short arm bellcrank rearwardly of said motor and substantially amidship the fuselage, pivot means upstanding from the fuselage to mount said bellcrank at its axes intersection to extend normally in horizontal plane and with the short arm axis normally transverse the fuselage, a rigid member with ends pivotally connected, respectively, to the free end of said short arm and passing through an opening in the fuselage outwardly to the elevator at a spaced distance from the hinge connections, conductor means including a pair of flexible electrical conductive wires extending continuously within the fuselage from said motor with slack and connected to the respective longitudinally spaced apart ends of the bellcrank crossarm, and thence extending outwardly from the aircraft to be manipulated by an operator, a storage battery as the source of electrical power to which said conductor means are connected, a case therefor, a shoulder strap on the case for carriage by the operator, a handle to which said wires extending from said aircraft are mechanically connected and to which at least one of same is electrically connected, said conductor means including electric wires extending sufficiently between said handle and battery to provide slack therebetween when the device is in use, said short arm axis swinging back and forth, fore and aft of a substantially amidship transverse axis to move said rigid member in elevator adjustment responsive to operator manipulation of said conductive wires.