New airplane wing tilts 90 degrees, leading edge up, to feather into rotor downwash during hovering, takeoff, or landing. After hovering or takeoff, rotors tilted forward slightly to accelerate airplane into forward flight. As airplane accelerates, wings start to tilt forward. At speeds of 20 to 40 knots (10.3 to 20.6 m/s), wings are in horizontal orientation. In this speed range, rotor power requirements decreased sufficiently to allow wings to assume normal orientation. Tiltable wings movable independently of tiltable rotors. Tilted at whatever pitch schedule yields greatest efficiency.


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    Title :

    Tiltable-Wing, Tiltable-Rotor Aircraft


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    Publication date :

    1986-01-01



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    English


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