An aircraft capable of VTOL and forward flight is fitted with a side body articulating propulsion system on the port and starboard sides of the fuselage. The side body articulating propulsion system has plural sets of port and starboard propulsor units controlled for synchronized rotation. The propulsor sets are supported in a triangular airframe designed to support the propulsor units equally spaced apart from one another along a propulsor slope that is angled about 30-60 degrees from horizontal. Synchronized rotation of the propulsor sets is accomplished by an articulation controller, which may be a parallelogram linkage and linear actuator. A port nacelle surrounds the port propulsor units and a starboard nacelle surrounds the starboard propulsor units. A cargo cavity is accessed through the aft end of the airframe. The airframe can be lengthened in the fore direction by attaching an ante-module and/or in the aft direction by an expansion module.
Aircraft with side body articulating propulsion
05.11.2024
Patent
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
IPC: | B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge |
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