An aircraft includes a fuselage and a wing assembly that is rotatable between a substantially perpendicular orientation relative to the fuselage in flight modes and a substantially parallel orientation relative to the fuselage in a wing stowage mode. The wing assembly includes a wing that is pivotable between forward flight and VTOL orientations by a pivot angle. A distributed thrust array is coupled to the wing that includes outboard and inboard propulsion assemblies, each propulsion assembly having an axis of rotation that has a fixed angle relative to a chord axis of the wing. In a VTOL flight mode, the axis of rotation of each propulsion assembly is substantially vertical and the wing is in the VTOL orientation. In a forward flight mode, the wing is in the forward flight orientation and the axis of rotation of each propulsion assembly is tilted forward from the vertical by the pivot angle.
Variable Incidence Wing Aircraft having a Wing Stowage Mode
2023-10-19
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge |
Aircraft Having Variable Incidence Forward-Swept Wing
NTIS | 1981
|Aircraft Having Variable Incidence Forward-Swept Wing
NTIS | 1981
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