Title:
AIRCRAFT WITH A FUSELAGE SUBSTANTIALLY DESIGNED AS AN AEROSTATIC LIFTING BODY
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO1998029303
Kind Code:
A8
Abstract:
An aircraft has a fuselage substantially designed as an aerostatic lifting body and combined lifting and propelling devices joined to the fuselage, provided with propellers and forming driving units which can tilt between a lifting position, in which the plane of rotation of the respective propeller is substantially horizontal and the driven shaft of the associated drive that drives the propeller shaft is substantially vertical, and a propelling position in which the plane of rotation of the respective propeller is substantially vertical and the driven shaft of the associated drive that drives the propeller shaft is substantially horizontal. The plane of rotation of the propeller can swivel around the driven shaft of the associated drive that drives the propeller shaft.
Inventors:
KUENKLER HERMANN (DE)
Application Number:
PCT/EP1998/000015
Publication Date:
November 11, 1999
Filing Date:
January 02, 1998
Export Citation:
Assignee:
INDUSTRIEANLAGEN BETRIEBSGES (DE)
KUENKLER HERMANN (DE)
KUENKLER HERMANN (DE)
International Classes:
B63H5/125; B64B1/30; B64B1/32; B64C11/02; B64C27/28; B64B1/06; B64C27/52; B64C29/00; B64D35/00; (IPC1-7): B64B1/06; B64B1/30; B64C27/52; B64C29/00; B64C27/28
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