STOWABLE AND DEPLOYABLE UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE

摘要

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can be deployed from a small stowed package for flight and stowed back into the package after the flight is complete is disclosed. The UAV is retracted to a volume that is less than half of it's fully deployed volume. This allows the UAV to be transported to any desired field position on a truck or other convenient transportation. The UAV may also be launched from a ship deck. In a further aspect, the flexible deployment of the UAV will allow a single UAV to be used in place of multiple types of UAVs.

主权项

1. An aerial vehicle, comprising
a fuselage; a telescoping wing assembly comprising two wings, each comprising a telescoping axis; and a wing root mechanism comprising a vertical rotation pivot operatively coupling said wing assembly to said fuselage, wherein said wing assembly rotates between a position in which the telescoping axis is parallel to an axis of the fuselage and a position in which the telescoping axis is perpendicular to the axis of the fuselage.