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Apparatus, systems, and methods are contemplated for electric powered vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Such are craft are engineered to carry safely carry at least 500 pounds (approx. 227 kg) using a few (e.g., 2-4) rotors, generally variable speed rigid (non-articulated) rotors. It is contemplated that one or more rotors generate a significant amount of lift (e.g., 70%) during rotorborne flight (e.g., vertical takeoff, hover, etc), and tilt to provide forward propulsion during wingborne flight. The rotors preferably employ individual blade control, and are battery powered. The vehicle preferably flies in an autopilot or pilotless mode and has a relatively small (e.g., less than 45′ diameter) footprint.

Apparatus, systems, and methods are contemplated for electric powered vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Such are craft are engineered to carry safely carry at least 500 pounds (approx. 227 kg) using a few (e.g., 2-4) rotors, generally variable speed rigid (non-articulated) rotors. It is contemplated that one or more rotors generate a significant amount of lift (e.g., 70%) during rotorborne flight (e.g., vertical takeoff, hover, etc), and tilt to provide forward propulsion during wingborne flight. The rotors preferably employ individual blade control, and are battery powered. The vehicle preferably flies in an autopilot or pilotless mode and has a relatively small (e.g., less than 45′ diameter) footprint.

An electric propulsion system for a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft having a heat exchanger to cool fluids used in an electrical engine, the electric propulsion system comprising at least one electrical engine mechanically connected directly or indirectly to a fuselage of the VTOL aircraft and electrically connected to an electrical power source. The electrical engine may comprise an electrical motor having a stator and a rotor; a gearbox assembly comprising a sun gear; at least one planetary gear; a ring gear; and a planetary carrier. The electric engine may include an inverter assembly comprising a thermal plate and an inverter assembly housing; an end bell assembly that is connected to the thermal plate of the inverter assembly; and a heat exchanger comprising an array of cooling fins and tubes.

The invention belongs to the technical field of airplane structure design, and discloses a horizontal tail wing beam connecting structure, an airplane and an assembling method, and the horizontal tail wing beam connecting structure comprises a central rib plate, an upper T-shaped connector, a lower T-shaped connector, a left connecting plate, a right connecting plate and an outer side connecting plate. The upper T-shaped joint comprises a lower edge strip, a first left edge strip and a first right edge strip, the lower T-shaped joint comprises an upper edge strip, a second left edge strip and a second right edge strip, the central rib plate is arranged between the left beam and the right beam, and the left connecting plate, the right connecting plate and the outer side connecting plate are combined for use, so that the bearing capacity of a left beam web plate and a right beam web plate is improved; the first left edge strip and the first right edge strip can increase the contact area between the upper T-shaped connector and the left wing and the contact area between the upper T-shaped connector and the right wing, the second left edge strip and the second right edge strip can increase the contact area between the lower T-shaped connector and the left wing and the contact area between the lower T-shaped connector and the right wing, the connecting strength of the left beam and the right beam in the vertical direction is improved, and the lower edge strip, the upper edge strip and the central rib plate are matched with one another. And the connection strength of the left beam and the right beam in the horizontal direction is improved.

The invention belongs to the technical field of flight mechanics, and particularly relates to a V-shaped empennage control surface course control extension control method which comprises the steps that a left control surface deflection angle reaches an upper limit, a right control surface deflection angle continues to deflect leftwards, and a right empennage generates right lower lift increment perpendicular to the incoming flow direction; the right empennage can simultaneously generate a vertically downward force and a head-up torque relative to the gravity center of the whole aircraft; a downward head lowering moment is generated through the longitudinal periodic pitch change of the rotor wings and the tilt angle of the rotor wings, so that the pitching moment is balanced; the vertical force balance of the whole aircraft is achieved by adjusting the attack angle of the aircraft body.

The invention provides a wing type biological hybrid flapping wing aircraft with deformable wings. The wing type biological hybrid flapping wing aircraft comprises a flapping mechanism, a wing deformation mechanism, bird feather type wings, an aircraft body, an empennage deformation mechanism and a bird feather type empennage, the flapping mechanism and the empennage deformation mechanism are mounted on the fuselage; the flapping mechanism drives the wing deformation mechanism to do wing flapping motion; the bird feather type wings are arranged on the wing deformation mechanism; the empennage deformation mechanism comprises an empennage joint and a plurality of steering engines, the steering engines drive the empennage joint to do four-degree-of-freedom motion, and the bird feather type empennage is installed on the empennage joint. The multi-degree-of-freedom cooperative connecting rod transmission mechanism is adopted, high-fidelity reproduction of bird flapping wing motion is efficiently achieved, and independent and accurate regulation and control of the torsion angle, the torsion rate and the torsion direction of the empennage are achieved based on hierarchical steering engine control and the decoupling characteristic of the double-layer motion frame.

The invention provides a non-orthogonal tilt-rotor aircraft and a flight control method thereof, a tilt shaft at the lower end of a tilt nacelle is obliquely arranged, and the tilt shaft is parallel to an XZ plane, forms an angle of 45 degrees with an X axis and a Z axis, and is not orthogonal to an XY plane and a YZ plane of a fuselage coordinate system; the positive direction of the X axis is backward along the course, the positive direction of the Y axis is rightward along the course, and the positive direction of the Z axis is upward along the vertical direction. According to the invention, the transverse stability augmentation effect can be provided, the transverse stability is improved, and the problem of unstable pitching of the fuselage caused by tilting of the rotor nacelles can be avoided.

Apparatus, systems, and methods are contemplated for electric powered vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Such are craft are engineered to carry safely carry at least 500 pounds (approx. 227 kg) using a few (e.g., 2-4) rotors, generally variable speed rigid (non-articulated) rotors. It is contemplated that one or more rotors generate a significant amount of lift (e.g., 70%) during rotorborne flight (e.g., vertical takeoff, hover, etc), and tilt to provide forward propulsion during wingborne flight. The rotors preferably employ individual blade control, and are battery powered. The vehicle preferably flies in an autopilot or pilotless mode and has a relatively small (e.g., less than 45′ diameter) footprint.

The invention provides an ornithopter with multi-degree-of-freedom empennage collaborative movement and a control method.The ornithopter comprises a rack, empennage bodies and an empennage driving mechanism, each empennage body comprises an empennage support, a plurality of tail feather bodies, a traction rope guide wheel and a tail feather elastic rope, and one end of each tail feather body is sequentially hinged to one end of the empennage support; the number of the traction rope guide wheels is two, the traction rope guide wheels are arranged in the middle of the empennage support side by side, the tail feather elastic rope is sequentially connected to the multiple tail feather bodies, and the two tail feather bodies on the outermost side are each provided with a connecting part extending towards the other side of the hinged end. The empennage driving mechanism comprises an empennage connecting pipe assembly, a traction steering engine, a winding roll, a traction rope, an empennage torsion steering engine, an empennage deflection steering engine and an empennage pitching steering engine. According to the empennage structure, independent control or combined control of torsion, pitching, deflection and opening and closing actions can be achieved, and the problems that an existing ornithopter empennage mechanism is insufficient in motion freedom degree and lacks an efficient wing-empennage cooperative motion system are solved.

An aircraft comprising a fuselage with a nose and a tail arranged on opposite parts to each other along a first longitudinal axis is described; a pair of half-wings arranged on respective mutually opposite sides of the fuselage; a first and a second rotor carried by respective half-wings, respectively rotatable around a second and third axis inclinable with respect to said fuselage, and independently operable from each other; the aircraft is switchable between a first hovering flight or take-off / landing configuration wherein the fourth and fifth axis are arranged orthogonal to said first axis; and a second forward flight configuration wherein the fourth and fifth axis are arranged parallel or inclined with respect to said first axis; the aircraft further comprising a tail portion comprising a first aerodynamic surface, and a third and a fourth rotor rotatable around a fixed fourth and a fifth axis; and support means of the third and fourth rotor connected to a corresponding said half-wing and to a corresponding said fin.

This invention belongs to the field of helicopter design technology, and particularly relates to a method for controlling the longitudinal center of gravity of a helicopter. The method includes: acquiring characteristic data of the helicopter; determining the combined fuel weight G under the pre-limit loading state. 油前 Center of gravity C 油前 The total fuel weight G under the ultimate loading condition was determined. 油后 Center of gravity C 油后 Determine the fuel consumption ΔG of the receiving tank at the start of the transfer. 受油 Minimum value; determines the fuel consumption ΔG of the receiving tank at the start of transfer. 受油 Maximum value; determine the amount of oil transferred ΔG 输油 Minimum value; determine the amount of oil transferred ΔG 输油 Maximum value; ΔG 受油 ΔG 输油 Provides fuel system design to enable automatic transfer functionality.

The present invention provides an extreme STOL airplane comprising: a fuselage and a wing having port and starboard wing sections. Each wing section has a body with top and bottom surfaces, leading and trailing edges, and a span, i.e., the distance between a wing section tip and root connected to the fuselage, and flap coves. Aerodynamic elements integrated into the wing sections include Fowler flaps, having leading and trailing edges and a span, flap tracks, wherein the flap tracks are external to the wing section body, extend aftward beyond the trailing edge of the wing section, and are configured to enable the Fowler flaps to rotate or deflect and to translate or extend and retract, Frise ailerons, wherein the Frise ailerons are located outboard of the Fowler flaps, and spoilerons located over the leading edge of the Fowler flaps when the flaps are in the fully extended position.

An aerial and preferably marine vehicle intended to operate in its principal mode near the surface of water or land employing the Wing-in-Ground Effect (WIG) and capable to take-off and land vertically (VTOL) by means of thrust vectoring, which vehicle has a wing arranged at the lowermost part of the fuselage, propulsion units comprising four rotatable pylons extending transversely in pairs on both sides of the upper part of the fuselage, four elongated nacelles mounted on the outer tips of said pylons, which nacelles contain electric motors (E) and provided with propellers at their extremities, so that the rotation of the pylons results in turning the nacelles and thrust of propellers from substantially vertical, ensuring take-off and landing, to substantially horizontal providing a flight mode, retractable hydroskis for emergency landing on water, while said propulsion units and said wing are spaced apart vertically and horizontally and do not overlap.

Embodiments provide an aircraft with one or more tilting fan assemblies that are configured to tilt between a forward flight position and a vertical lift position. The aircraft may also include a plurality of lift fan assemblies for vertical movement. The tilting fan assemblies may be coupled to the fuselage or wings of the aircraft via one or more tilting mechanisms. A control system coupled to the aircraft may control the one or more tilting mechanisms to move the tilting fan assemblies between the forward flight position and the vertical lift position. The tilting fan assemblies may be coupled to one or more support structures that are coupled the fuselage or wings of the aircraft.

In some embodiments, an electric aircraft may include a plurality of flight components including a plurality of control surfaces; a plurality of lift propulsors; at least a thrust propulsor; and a plurality of electric motors configured to power the plurality of propulsors; a flight controller, communicatively connected to a pilot input and flight components. In some embodiments, a flight controller may be configured to receive control datum from a pilot input; and generate an output datum as a function of the control datum.

A control system for rotating an airfoil along one axis that is offset from a perpendicular axis that varies the angle of attack (AOA), dihedral, and center of lift based on the position of the attachment to precisely maneuver an aircraft. This technique can eliminate the need for traditional control surfaces such as ailerons, elevators, and rudders. allowing for an aerodynamically advantaged shape.

A method for reducing aerodynamic loads on an aircraft located on the ground includes moving a wing tip relative to a fixed wing to an on-ground configuration in which the span of the wing is reduced. The wing tip includes an airflow channel, which is in an open configuration in which airflow through the channel between upper and lower surfaces of the wing tip is enabled, when the wing tip is in the on-ground configuration. This has been found to reduce aerodynamic loads on the wing tip and / or parts of the aircraft connected thereto during this phase of the aircraft's use.

Examples relate to uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) and methods for controlled descent during control tier failures. A computing device may initially detect a control tier failure at an UAV. In some examples, the UAV includes a fuselage, a pair of wings extending outwardly from the fuselage, and a pair of stabilizers arranged in a V-shape configuration. Each stabilizer has a control surface that is adjustable relative to a fixed portion of the stabilizer. Based on detecting the control tier failure at the UAV, the computing device may adjust the control surface of each stabilizer from a first angle to a second angle relative to the fixed portion of the stabilizer. By adjusting the angle between the control surfaces and fixed portions of one or both stabilizers, the UAV may induce a deep stall maneuver that can enable a controlled descent of the UAV.

The invention discloses a large seaplane integrated with a distributed electric propulsion technology and a propulsion method, and relates to the technical field of seaplane. Comprising a fuselage, a left wing and a right wing are arranged on the two sides of the fuselage respectively, and a V-shaped hull is arranged at the lower end of the fuselage; and a T-shaped empennage is arranged at the tail part of the fuselage. Through the synergistic effect of the design of the V-shaped ship body and the distributed propulsion system, the whole ship body makes contact with the water surface to provide sufficient buoyancy at the low speed, only the main sliding face makes contact with the ship body to form an air layer at the high speed, and the air film drag reduction effect of a propeller at the bottom of the ship body is matched, so that the water resistance is reduced by 35%-50%, and the draft is reduced by 40%-60% along with speed increase; the problems that a traditional seaplane is large in water resistance and difficult to leave water are effectively solved, meanwhile, the left buoy and the right buoy are in linkage with the attitude control system, wave disturbance can be counteracted in real time, the transverse inclination angle is controlled within 1 degree, the wave resistance is improved to be capable of coping with waves with the height of 1.5 m, and the defects that a traditional seaplane is poor in wave resistance and has strict requirements for taking-off and landing water areas are overcome.

A vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft includes a maximum takeoff weight (MTOW) of about 1700-kg, a cruising speed of about 80-knots equivalent airspeed (EAS) to about 100-knots EAS, a nominal range of about 300-km, a nominal flight time of about 4-hours, and at least one pair of rotors configured to provide vertical thrust. Each rotor of the at least one pair includes an about 2-meter propeller diameter, a disk loading of about 67-kg / m2 to about 110-kg / m2, and an operating speed of about 1800 rotations-per-minute (RPM) to about 2700-RPM.

A craft is provided comprising: a propulsion system; a fuselage coupled with the propulsion system, wherein the fuselage is configured to carry a payload and fuel for the propulsion system; and a pre-assembled wing coupled with the fuselage; wherein the craft is designed to take-off without using a runway and does not have landing gear to land.

A vertical take-off and landing aircraft includes: a fuselage and 2N tilting rotors. Both sides of the fuselage are provided with a wing symmetrically, a tail of the fuselage is provided with an empennage, and ruddervators are provided at the empennage. 2N tilting rotors are symmetrically provided at both sides of the fuselage, and a part of the 2N tilting rotors are provided on the empennage. N is a natural number greater than or equal to 2; in a vertical take-off and landing state, projections of propellers of the 2N tilting rotors on a horizontal plane are centrally symmetrical about point B, point B and a center of gravity point G of the vertical take-off and landing aircraft are both provided in a symmetry plane of the fuselage.

The utility model discloses an automatic balancing device and an aerial operation robot. The automatic balancing device comprises a connecting seat, a motor and a ducted fan, wherein the connecting seat is used for being connected with a foot stool of the aerial operation robot; the ducted fan is fixedly installed on the connecting base, the motor is fixed to the ducted fan and drives a propeller of the ducted fan to rotate, and the ducted fan is used for forming power for balancing the aerial operation robot in air pushed by rotation of the propeller. The automatic balancing device is compact in structure and controllable in cost, is mounted on a foot stool of the aerial operation robot, and is used for resisting center-of-gravity shift caused by crosswind or movement on an overhead line, so that interference of the center-of-gravity shift on operation of the aerial operation robot on the overhead line is avoided; the walking stability and safety of the aerial operation robot on the overhead line are remarkably improved.

Apparatus, systems, and methods are contemplated for electric powered vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Such are craft are engineered to carry safely carry at least 500 pounds (approx. 227 kg) using a few (e.g., 2-4) rotors, generally variable speed rigid (non-articulated) rotors. It is contemplated that one or more rotors generate a significant amount of lift (e.g., 70%) during rotorborne flight (e.g., vertical takeoff, hover, etc), and tilt to provide forward propulsion during wingborne flight. The rotors preferably employ individual blade control, and are battery powered. The vehicle preferably flies in an autopilot or pilotless mode and has a relatively small (e.g., less than 45′ diameter) footprint.

An aircraft designed to provide sustained G forces, with a relatively high steady angle of attack maneuverability using less thrust by balancing thrust and drag to sustain a high turn rate with dual low thrust engines using novel wing and fuselage designs. The aircraft includes a wing oriented laterally relative to the fuselage, at least one horizontal tail surface extending laterally from the fuselage and positioned rearward of the fixed wing, and at least one vertical tail surface extending upward from the fuselage. The first and second engines are mounted to the fuselage at locations positioned vertically below the fixed wing.

An unmanned aerial vehicle comprises: a fuselage (1) containing a nose fairing (2) and a load compartment (6), a front and a rear wings (3, 7) attached to the fuselage (1), a front camera (15) and a sighting camera (16) mounted to the fuselage (1), an engine with a propeller (14) mounted on the rear of the fuselage (1), a communication module with an antenna (17) mounted on the fuselage (1). The front wing (3) contains two height rudders (4) and two vertical fins (5) at its ends, the rear wing (7) contains ailerons (8). The unmanned aerial vehicle additionally contains a keel (11) with a directional rudder (12) and an altimeter (18). Said rear wing (7) additionally contains two consoles (9) at its ends, made with the possibility of attaching to it in the process of assembling the UAV. The said fuselage (1) containing the nose fairing (2) and a load compartment (6) is made of flat plywood sheets.

The invention provides a hovercar which comprises a hovercar body, folding wings, a folding duct and a telescopic empennage, the folding wing on each side comprises a plurality of wing sections hinged in sequence, and the adjacent wing sections are connected with folding assemblies used for enabling the wing sections to be folded in a Z shape; the folding duct comprises two duct bodies, two short cabin doors, a lengthened cabin door and a driving device. The driving device is used for driving the lengthened cabin door to move up and down so as to drive the two duct bodies to be unfolded out of the hovercar body or stored in the hovercar body. The telescopic empennage comprises a shell, an empennage assembly, a locking assembly and a telescopic assembly, wherein the empennage assembly is slidably inserted into the shell; in the process of stretching out and locking the empennage, after the telescopic assembly pushes the empennage assembly to move to the clamping position of the shell, the locking assembly continues to slide relative to the empennage assembly till interference fit is achieved so as to lock the empennage assembly. According to the implementation mode, different design requirements of the flying state and the land running state on the flying car can be met.

A takeoff and landing platform, a UAV, a takeoff and landing system, a storage device and a takeoff and landing control method are provided. The takeoff and landing platform includes: a bracket, one end of the bracket is fixed on a base, and another end thereof extends in a direction away from the base, and the bracket is provided with a vertical guide rail. Multiple UAVs may be vertically stacked on the bracket along the guide rail and take off from the bracket. Hence, the manpower investment and site investment are reduced for multiple UAVs to perform collaborative operations. It can not only reduce the cost of multiple UAV collaborative operations, but also improve the efficiency of multiple UAV collaborative operations.

A vertical take-off and landing aircraft and a control method for a vertical take-off and landing aircraft. The vertical take-off and landing aircraft includes a fuselage (10), four tilting rotors and four fixed rotors. Wings (20) are symmetrically provided at both sides of the fuselage (10); four tilting rotors are respectively installed at the front and rear sides of the wings (20) on both sides, and are pairwise correspondence and symmetrical about the longitudinal symmetry plane (11) of the fuselage (10). A spacing of the tilting rotors at the front side of the wing (20) is A, a spacing of the tilting rotors at the rear side of the wing (20) is B, and a deviation between A and B is less than or equal to 0.2*(A+B) / 2. Four fixed rotors are respectively provided at outer sides of the tilting rotors at both sides of the fuselage, and provided at the front sides and the rear sides of the wings (20), and are pairwise correspondence and symmetrical about the longitudinal symmetry plane (11). A spacing between two fixed rotors at the front sides of the wings (20) is C, a spacing between two fixed rotors on the rear sides of the wings (20) is D, and a deviation between C and D is less than or equal to 0.05*(C+D) / 2.