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Title:
転換式航空機
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP4499249
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
A convertiplane (1) having a wing (4) in turn having two half-wings (6), each defined by a fixed portion (13) adjacent to the fuselage (2), and by a movable portion (14) rotating, with respect to the fixed portion (13), about a beam element (7) extending the full length of the wing (4); the beam element (7) supports, integrally, rotors (11) located at respective ends of the wing (4), and engines (20) connected to the rotors (11) by a transmission (25), and is rotated about a respective axis (A) by actuators (48) to change the position of the rotors (11) from a vertical-axis position wherein the convertiplane (1) operates in helicopter mode, to a horizontal-axis position wherein the convertiplane (1) operates in airplane mode.

Inventors:
Santino Pancotti
Application Number:
JP2000170438A
Publication Date:
July 07, 2010
Filing Date:
June 02, 2000
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
Agusta Sochieta Per Azioni
International Classes:
B64C27/22; B64C29/00; B64C29/02; B64D35/06; B64D35/08
Foreign References:
US5096140
US4142697
US3567157
US2708081
US2621001
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Takashi Ishida
Jun Tsuruta
Masaya Nishiyama
Higuchi Souji