The present invention refers to a personal flight apparatus with vertical take-off and landing characterized in that it is a biplane apparatus constituted by two distinct parts articulated there between, the first distinct part consisting of the cockpit 1, which is hinged to the second part of the latter, which is formed of the wings assembly 6, the cockpit 1 being attached to the wings assembly 6 by two hinges 3 fixed in the upright central vertical supports 7 of the wings, and in this way the cockpit having a limited swing possibility inside of the wings support structure which in turn they are provided with four propellers 9, of ducted type and driven by electric engines 20 disposed two on the top wing and two on the bottom wing, thus forming a kind of quadcopter, the duct 10 of each propeller being provided on the inlet lip with an annular ejection slit 11, and the electrical energy required to operate the apparatus is provided by the batteries 14 placed under the pilot's seat which through the speed regulators transmit the electric energy to the engines, the entire operation of the apparatus being managed by means of a flight computer 17 disposed in the central part of the upper wing of the biplane, and the taking off being made with the wings and the engines vertically oriented, the flight apparatus being laid on the ground by means of a landing gear 15 fixed in the wing extremities, the flight apparatus taking off as a quadcopter, and the transition to the cruise flight is made by reducing the angle of incidence of the wings, this angle decreasing naturally due to the increased resistance to advancement of the wings concurrently with the speed of translation of the flight apparatus, and in the meantime the cockpit 1 remains in a vertical position due to its lower center of gravity and due to the joints 3 which allow it to rotate relative to the wings assembly 6 and the landing is made similarly to a quadcopter, slowing down the speed leading to increasing the incidence angle of the wings until they return to the vertical plane required for landing.
PERSONAL FLIGHT APPARATUS WITH VERTICAL TAKE-OFF AND LANDING
2021-03-04
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
PERSONAL FLIGHT APPARATUS WITH VERTICAL TAKE-OFF AND LANDING
European Patent Office | 2019
|PERSONAL FLIGHT APPARATUS WITH VERTICAL TAKE-OFF AND LANDING
European Patent Office | 2019
|PERSONAL FLIGHT APPARATUS WITH VERTICAL TAKE-OFF AND LANDING
European Patent Office | 2023
|PERSONAL FLIGHT APPARATUS WITH VERTICAL TAKE-OFF AND LANDING
European Patent Office | 2021
|Personal flight apparatus with vertical take-off and landing
European Patent Office | 2024
|