An aircraft (10) takes off, lands, or hovers with at least one wing-mounted thrust-producing device (12) attached to at least one wing (16) of the aircraft and at least two fuselage-mounted thrust-producing devices (18) attached to a fuselage of the aircraft both providing vertical thrust. The aircraft (10) is flown while the at least one wing-mounted thrust-producing device (12) provides horizontal thrust and with the at least two fuselage-mounted thrust-producing devices (18) not providing any thrust.
Vertically landing aircraft
Vertikal landendes Flugzeug
Aéronef atterrissant verticalement
2015-10-07
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge |
Vertically retracting side articulating landing gear for aircraft
European Patent Office | 2015
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