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Title:
GLOBULAR AIRCRAFT AND TAIL SITTER MACHINE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2010052713
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide an airplane having flexible and useful uses, capable of flying with wings after vertically taking off the ground from a narrow place, capable of hovering, and capable of moving on the ground after the take-off and then taking-off again.

A globular airplane 12 is provided with: an elevator 3 and a rudder 4 in the slipstream 38 of a propeller 1 in the forward from the whole center of the gravity 10; a tail sitter machine 32 so as to conduct the vertical take-off and landing and regular cruise flights; and a globular shell body 8 that is integrally provided with the machine body surrounding the body with the front and rear being open in the flight direction and having the area equivalent at least to the diameter of the propeller.


Inventors:
SATO FUMIYUKI
Application Number:
JP2009052244A
Publication Date:
March 11, 2010
Filing Date:
March 05, 2009
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
TECH RES DEV INST MINI DEFENCE
International Classes:
B64C29/02; B64C29/00; B64C37/00
Domestic Patent References:
JPH0367295A1991-03-22
JPH07236774A1995-09-12
JP2009202737A2009-09-10
Foreign References:
US20080272226A12008-11-06
US5114096A1992-05-19
US3120359A1964-02-04
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Norimitsu Nishimura