An aircraft takes off, lands, or hovers with at least one wing-mounted thrust-producing device attached to at least one wing of the aircraft and at least two fuselage-mounted thrust-producing devices attached to a fuselage of the aircraft both providing vertical thrust. The aircraft is flown while the at least one wing-mounted thrust-producing device provides horizontal thrust and with the at least two fuselage-mounted thrust-producing devices (18) not providing any thrust.
Vertically landing aircraft
2015-09-30
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge |
Vertically retracting side articulating landing gear for aircraft
European Patent Office | 2015
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