Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft sustentation – Sustaining airfoils
Patent
1993-01-22
1995-03-07
Huppert, Michael S.
Aeronautics and astronautics
Aircraft sustentation
Sustaining airfoils
244 7R, 244 38, 244 39, B64C 338
Patent
active
053950739
ABSTRACT:
A VTOL/STOL free wing aircraft includes a free wing having wings on opposite sides of a fuselage connected to one another respectively adjacent fixed wing inboard or center root sections fixedly attached to the fuselage for free rotation about a spanwise access. Horizontal and vertical tail surfaces are located at the rear end of a boom assembly rotatably connected to the fuselage. A gearing or screw rod arrangement controlled by the pilot or remote control operator selectively relatively pivots the fuselage in relation to the tail boom assembly to enable the fuselage to assume a tilted or nose up configuration to enable VTOL/STOL flight.
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Rutan Elbert L.
Schmittle Hugh J.
Bidwell Anne E.
Freewing Aerial Robotics Corporation
Huppert Michael S.
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