A VTOL flying taxicab is provided to solve the ground and airport traffic congestion problems by directing the traffic from two-dimensional ground space to the three-dimensional air space. The VTOL-Flying-Taxicab includes two rows of independently controllable small electrical-motor driven propellers, located above-and-below each of its two wings' leading edges. This configuration divides each wing-top-surface and wing-bottom-surface into independently controllable strips of wing surfaces, where the thrust vector, air velocity vector and air pressure on each and all strips of wing surfaces are independently controllable at any vehicle speed. These features provide all control requirements of the VTOL-flying-taxicab maneuvers.


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    Title :

    VTOL flying taxicab


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2020-09-29


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge / B64D Ausrüstung für Flugzeuge , EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT



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