A vertical takeoff and landing aircraft has a circular body with a cockpit at the center, and multiple vertical, horizontal, and other directional through tunnels inside the body. A propelling device such as ducted fan, jet turbine or rocket is provided inside each tunnel. Each propelling device is completely disposed within a tunnel with no exposed parts. The bottom surface of the aircraft has a circular lip forming the lowest part of the aircraft, and the portion of the bottom surface surrounded by the circular lip is concave, where the multiple vertical through tunnels open to the concave portion. A control system controls the thrust produced by each propelling device so as to precisely control the horizontal and vertical speed and the pitch, roll, and yaw angles of the aircraft. Communication and positioning equipment are provided onboard, as well as various sensors. The aircraft may be manned or unmanned.
Hover airlift logistics operations guided expeditionary autonomous scalable and modular VTOL platform
2020-09-08
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge |
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