Title:
垂直離着陸、空力自立した水平飛行ハイブリッド航空機
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP4094811
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
The invention concerns a vertical take-off and landing, aerodynamically self-sustained horizontal flight hybrid aircraft (1; 11) comprising a propulsion system providing at least a fixed blade propellor/rotor (2; 12) on the front part of the aircraft, connected to the main engine(s) of the aircraft, and at least one auxiliary engine (3; 13), placed in the rear part of the aircraft, said auxiliary engine being progressively tiltable and swingable between two limit positions, respectively a vertical and a horizontal position, the piloting cabin (4; 14) and the passenger area (5; 15) being realised as swingable modules, in such a way to continuously maintain the horizontal position of the pavement and of the ceiling parallel with respect to the ground during each flying phase, i.e. during the take-off, the transition phase and the horizontal flight, and vice versa, said aircraft taking-off with a vertical attitude (front portion upward) and progressively changing the attitude by the help of the rear auxiliary tiltable engines, reaching a completely horizontal attitude, and vice versa, and coming back in the vertical attitude during the landing.
Inventors:
Capanna, Franco
Application Number:
JP2000524182A
Publication Date:
June 04, 2008
Filing Date:
December 09, 1998
Export Citation:
Assignee:
Capanna, Franco
International Classes:
B64C29/02
Domestic Patent References:
| JP63151598A | ||||
| JP61040600B2 |
Foreign References:
| US5289994 | ||||
| FR1180818A1 | ||||
| US3582021 | ||||
| DE4405975A1 | ||||
| FR2619354A1 |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Hideto Asamura
Hajime Asamura
Yutaka Yoshida
Yukio Iwamoto
Hajime Asamura
Yutaka Yoshida
Yukio Iwamoto