HIGH-SPEED VTOL AIRCRAFT

摘要

This invention can take-off like a helicopter and then roll forward as a single unit to fly faster and further than any conventional helicopter. Just like the seats in a Ferris wheel, the payload of passengers or freight can remain upright and comfortable as this aircraft rotates from take-off to fast forward and back to landing mode. Prior inventions claiming similar performance generate lift for take-off and landing by relative rotation of major aircraft components or by vectoring a thrust through large angles of deflection which produces inherently unstable flight characteristics. This invention requires neither rotation of major assemblies nor highly vectorable thrust, making it simpler and more reliable than the aircraft with major rotating assemblies and more stable and efficient than aircraft relying on vectored thrust for lift.

主权项

1. A VTOL aircraft capable of fixed-wing aircraft speed comprising:
a) an airframe into which a payload such as human beings or freight can be loaded and to which major components that provide propulsion and/or lift are attached; b) a system for producing a force used for lift during take-off, landing, and hover, for lift and propulsion in a relatively slow primarily horizontal flight mode, and for propulsion in fast forward flight mode, that does not change the general orientation of the force with respect to the airframe in any of these flight modes; c) at least one surface providing lift due to flow past it during fast-forward flight that does not change general orientation with respect to the airframe in any flight modes.