1824 results about "Tailplane" patented technology

A vertical take-off and landing aircraft includes a fixed wing airframe having opposed left and right wings extending from left and right sides, respectively, of a fuselage having opposed leading and trailing extremities and an empennage located behind the trailing extremity. Four fixed, open and horizontal, vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) thrust rotors are mounted to the airframe in a quadrotor pattern for providing vertical lift to the aircraft, and a vertical, forward thrust rotor is mounted to the trailing extremity of the fuselage between the trailing extremity of the fuselage and the empennage for providing forward thrust to the aircraft. The four VTOL thrust rotors are coplanar being and operating in a common plane that is parallel relative to, and being level with, top surfaces of the left and right wings in and around a region of each of the four VTOL thrust rotors.

A modular unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) having a fuselage, a nose cone, a left wing piece, a right wing piece, and a tail section. The tail section and nose cone each join to the fuselage through mating bulkhead structures that provide quick connection capability while being readily separated so as to enable the UAV to break apart at these connection points and thereby absorb or dissipate impact upon landing. The UAV is capable of rapid assembly in the field for two-man launch and data retrieval, as well as quick disassembly into these five component parts for transport and storage in a highly compact transport case that can be carried as a backpack.

An aircraft including an airframe having a fuselage which extends longitudinally, and having fixed wings including a main wing, a horizontal tail wing and a vertical tail wing. A propeller-rotor torque transmission has a bevel gear which transmits the rotation of an input shaft simultaneously to a propeller shaft and to a rotor shaft. An engine gearbox supplies the above-mentioned input shaft with rotationalal motive power. The aircraft further includes a propeller collective pitch controller, a rotor collective pitch controller, an engine power controller which controls the output of the above-mentioned engine gearbox for the purpose of changing the rotational speed of the input shaft, and a flight control system having a directional (yaw) control system which controls the flight direction of the aircraft by controlling the positions of the above-mentioned control surfaces.

A vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft according to an aspect of the present invention comprises a fuselage, an empennage having an all-moving horizontal stabilizer located at a tail end of the fuselage, a wing having the fuselage positioned approximately halfway between the distal ends of the wing, wherein the wing is configured to transform between a substantially straight wing configuration and a canted wing configuration using a canted hinge located on each side of the fuselage. The VTOL aircraft may further includes one or more retractable pogo supports, wherein a retractable pogo support is configured to deploy from each of the wing's distal ends.

An air-launched aircraft includes deployable wings, elevons, and vertical fins that deploy from a fuselage during flight. The aircraft may include a control system for operating the elevons, a communication system, and batteries for powering the systems. In addition, the aircraft may include a payload module that mates with an interface in the fuselage. The payload module may include any of a variety of payloads, including cameras, sensors, and/or radar emitters. The aircraft may be powered or unpowered, and may be very small, for example, less than on the order of 10 kg (22 pounds). The aircraft may be employed at a low cost for any of a wide variety of functions, such as surveillance, or as a decoy. The deployable surfaces of the aircraft may be configured to deploy in a pre-determined order, allowing the aircraft automatically to enter controlled flight after being launched in a tumbling mode.

The invention relates to a tilt rotor aircraft adopting parallel coaxial dual rotors, which comprises a fuselage, wings, an empennage, a pitch control scull system, a landing gear, a power and fuel system, a transmission system, a rotor system, a rotor nacelle and a tilt system, wherein the wings are arranged at the center section of the fuselage; the empennage and the pitch control scull system are arranged at the tail of the fuselage; the landing gear is positioned at the belly of the fuselage; the power and fuel system is arranged inside the center section of the fuselage and is connected with the rotor system and the pitch control scull system through the wings and the transmission system in the fuselage; the rotor system is arranged on the rotor nacelle at the tip of the wings; partial wing which is fixedly connected with the rotor nacelle and simultaneously can tilt is arranged at the inner side of the rotor nacelle; and the tilt system is arranged in the wings and is connected with the rotor nacelle and the partial wing which can tilt. The tilt rotor aircraft is mainly characterized by adopting the pitch control scull system, the parallel coaxial dual rotors and the partialwing which can tilt to realize flight status transformation and conventional taxiing and landing, thereby improving the forward speed and the propulsive efficiency.

The invention relates to an unmanned aerial vehicle which can vertically take off and land and hover in the air and has higher flight speed and larger flying range. The unmanned aerial vehicle does not need running take-off, thereby reducing the requirement on a taking off and landing field and greatly expanding the application range, and the unmanned aerial vehicle has higher speed and further flaying range than a manned helicopter. The unmanned aerial vehicle comprises a body (1), wings (8), a horizontal empennage (2), a vertical empennage (5), a nose power cabin (15) arranged on the front part of the body (1), a propeller power system (12) arranged on the front part of the nose power cabin (15) and a tilting mechanism (16) arranged on the middle upper part of the body, wherein the nosepower cabin (15) is connected with the body in a titling mode through the tilting mechanism (16) so as to ensure that the axial directions of the propellers (121) and (122) of the propeller power system (12) can be correspondingly titled.

The composite rotating fixed-wing aircraft consists of the coaxial counter-paddle, reverse gear, engine output shaft, engine with a starter-generator, wings, tail blades, landing device, culvert, steering gear, fairing, fuselage, motor, motor drive shaft, wing control unit of small angle of attack, aileron rudder surface, and tailplane rudder surface. Co-axial counter-blade is located in the upper part of the aircraft, which connects with the engine output shaft; the reverse gear is installed between the co-axial counter-propellers; the motor connects with motor drive shaft powered by the starter-generator of the engine; the wings are located on both sides of aircraft and connect with the fuselage; the tail blades are located at the aircraft tail, which are installed behinde motor drive shaft; the landing device is located under the lower part of the fuselage and fixed with it; the culvert connects with the landing device; the fairing is installed in the culvert and connects with the steering gear; the wing control unit of small angle of attack is installed on the wing. The aircraft design method has six steps with strict scientific idea; this invention has a wide range of practical value and application prospect.

A missile, either a powered missile or an unpowered projectile, includes a freely-rolling tail assembly having an odd number of fins. Having an odd number of fins may reduce oscillations caused by the rotation of the freely-rotating tail. This may make a more stable platform for a seeker, such as an uncooled focal point array or other imaging infrared (IIR) or millimeter wave radio frequency (MMW) seeker, in the body of the missile. Also, minimizing oscillation by using an odd number of fins may facilitate control of the missile.

The invention relates to a double-wing type miniature bionic ornithopter, which comprises a driving mechanism, a double-flapping-wing system, a spoiler mechanism and a principal arm, wherein the driving mechanism is just connected to the front end of the main arm, the double-flapping-wing system is positioned above the principal arm, and the spoiler mechanism is connected to the rear end of the principal arm. The driving mechanism comprises a diamond rack, a miniature direct current motor, a gear reducing mechanism and two crank-link mechanisms, the double-flapping-wing system comprises two symmetrical flapping wing racks, four flapping wing installation rods, an upper layer of flapping wing and a lower layer of flapping wing, and the spoiler mechanism comprises an electromagnetic rubber, a spoiler and a swing wing. The miniature direct current motor pulls two flapping wing racks to move up and down through the gear reducing mechanism and the crank-link mechanisms, so that the bionic flapping wings can be realized. The electromagnetic rubber in the spoiler mechanism can control the swing wing to swing from side to side by changing the current direction, so that the fly direction of the ornithopter can be controlled.

The invention described here offers a more effective method of ornithopter flight control. To accomplish this, the ornithopter has dual microprocessor-controlled drive systems for flapping the wings independently of each other. Various wing movements can cause the ornithopter to turn, roll, or pitch up or down. Weight and complexity are reduced by eliminating the need for servo-controlled tail surfaces.

A vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, which includes pivotal wing and engine assemblies on a fuselage with tail assemblies extending from each of the wing assemblies and the engines being operable in turbo prop or pure jet mode, wherein the aircraft is configured such that it can be landed or taken off vertically or in a horizontal mode along a runway.

The invention provides a rotor blade airplane with a variable flight mode, comprising an airplane body, a plurality of canards, a rotor blade, an empennage and a power system. The rotor blade airplane is characterized in that the canards are symmetrically arranged at two sides of the head of the airplane body; the empennage comprises a perpendicular empennage and a horizontal empennage, the perpendicular empennage is arranged at the back of the airplane body, and the horizontal empennage is arranged at the top end of the perpendicular empennage to form into the 'T'-shaped empennage; the canards, the rotor blade and the horizontal empennage are distributed with one another in the manner of a step from low to high along with the Z direction of the airplane; and a plurality of high lift devices are arranged on the canards and the horizontal empennage, and the lift force requirement for the controllable flight of the airplane can be met by a lift force generated on the canards and the horizontal empennage during transition flight. The rotor blade airplane can prevent the empennage from being directly impacted by the downwash of the rotor blade under a rotor blade flight mode, the distraction to a horizontal tail caused by the downwash of the rotor blade can be reduced, and the airplane can be controlled under the rotor blade flight mode during the transition flight.

The present invention is a 2 passenger aircraft capable of vertical and conventional takeoffs and landings, called a jyrodyne. The jyrodyne comprises a central fuselage with biplane-type wings arranged in a negative stagger arrangement, a horizontal ducted fan inlet shroud located at the center of gravity in the top biplane wing, a rotor mounted in the shroud, outrigger wing support landing gear, a forward mounted canard wing and passenger compartment, a multiple vane-type air deflector system for control and stability in VTOL mode, a separate tractor propulsion system for forward flight, and a full-span T-tail. Wingtip extensions on the two main wings extend aft to attach to the T-tail. The powerplants consist of two four cylinder two-stroke reciprocating internal combustion engines. Power from the engines is distributed between the ducted fan and tractor propeller through the use of a drivetrain incorporating two pneumatic clutches, controlled by an automotive style footpedal to the left of the rudder pedals. When depressed, power is transmitted to the ducted fan for vertical lift. When released, power is transmitted to the tractor propeller for forward flight. The aircraft can also takeoff and land in the conventional manner with a much larger payload, and is easily converted to amphibious usage. Landing gear is a bicycle arrangement with outriggers. The aircraft combines twin engines, heavy-duty landing gear, controlled-collapse crashworthy seats with a low stall speed and high resistance to stalls to eliminate any region of the flight regime where an engine or drivetrain failure could cause an uncontrollable crash.

A toy radio-controlled helicopter includes: a main rotor, attached on the top of a fuselage and driven by a motor incorporated in the fuselage; a tail rotor that is driven by the motor and is attached to a tail unit provided at the end of a horizontally elongated boom that is extended from the rear of the fuselage; right and left movable wings, attached to the right and left sides of the fuselage below the main rotor, that can be rotated by respective actuators incorporated in the fuselage; and a receiver incorporated in the fuselage to control the operations of the motor and the actuators.

The invention relates to a convertible aircraft operating method. According to the invention, the aircraft comprises: a fuselage, standard fixed wings which are equipped with ailerons, a tail unit with flight-control surfaces, engines, a rotor with blades, a transmission which is placed between the engines and the rotor and which is equipped with rotor clutch and braking means, a landing gear, means for transition from helicopter mode to gyroplane mode and vice versa, and means for direct or reverse transition from gyroplane/helicopter mode to aeroplane mode. The lift for a range of low speeds is produced by means of the rotor, while the lift for a range of high speeds is produced by means of the wings. In addition, the lift for a range of intermediate speeds can be produced using the wings and the rotor in gyroplane mode simultaneously, and take-off and landing can be performed in gyroplane mode or in helicopter mode with the engines coupled to the rotor. The aircraft comprises a hybrid helicopter/gyroplane/aeroplane aircraft and, as such, can perform the direct or reverse transition to aeroplane mode from both helicopter mode and gyroplane mode.

The invention provides a folding small-sized unmanned aerial vehicle, which comprises a wing-fuselage blended body, a pair of airfoils, an empennage and a tail boom, wherein the airfoils are respectively arranged on both sides of the wing-fuselage blended body; a connection position of each airfoil and the wing-fuselage blended body is provided with a first folding mechanism; the first folding mechanisms are used for folding the airfoils downwards relative to the wing-fuselage blended body and locking the unfolded airfoils in an unfolded state; one end of the tail boom is connected with the empennage, while the other end is connected with the wing-fuselage blended body through a second folding mechanism; and the second folding mechanism is used for folding the tail boom downwards relative to the wing-fuselage blended body and locking the unfolded tail boom in an unfolded state. After being folded, an airframe structure of the small-sized unmanned aerial vehicle can be accommodated in a cuboid packing chest; and the folding small-sized unmanned aerial vehicle can unfold to the flight condition automatically by utilizing an air-powered actuating device to execute flight tasks of air delivery and the like, and simultaneously, the small-sized unmanned aerial vehicle is short in assembly and disassembly time and convenient in transportation.

The modular aircraft system includes a single fuselage having a permanently installed empennage and plural sets of wing modules and engine modules, with each wing and engine module optimized for different flight conditions and missions. The fuselage and each of the modules are configured for rapid removal and installation of the modules to minimize downtime for the aircraft. Short wings having relatively low aspect ratio are provided for relatively high speed flight when great endurance and/or weight carrying capacity are not of great concern. Long wings having high aspect ratio are provided for longer range and endurance flights where speed is not absolutely vital. A medium span wing module is also provided. Turboprop, single turbojet, and dual turbojet engine modules are provided for installation depending upon mission requirements for any given flight. The aircraft is primarily adapted for use as an autonomously operated or remotely operated unmanned aerial vehicle.

A tilt-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle comprises a fuselage, tilted wings, tilted tail planes, a vertical empennage, a power system and a landing gear. The tilt-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle is characterized in that the power system comprises wing power devices arranged on the wings, tail plane power devices arranged on the tail planes, oil tanks and oil transferring pipelines, and the power devices and the oil tanks are distributed symmetrically on the two sides of the vertical symmetrical face of the fuselage. The wing power devices and/or the empennage power devices comprise pinch control mechanisms, and the pinch control mechanisms can adjust angles between paddles of a propeller and the axis of the paddles through mechanical transmission. The wings and the tail planes can tilt at large angles through tilting mechanisms, and free conversion between a multi-rotor mode and a fixed wing mode can be achieved under control of a control system.

A flight-operable, truly modular aircraft has an aircraft core to which one or more of outer wings members, fuselage, cockpit, leading and trailing edge couplings, and empennage and tail sections can be removably coupled and/or replaced during the operating life span of the aircraft. In preferred embodiments the aircraft core houses the propulsive engines, avionics, at least 80% of the fuel, and all of the landing gear. The aircraft core is preferably constructed with curved forward and aft composite spars, that transfer loads across the center section, while accommodating a mid-wing configuration. The aircraft core preferably has a large central cavity dimensioned to interchangeably carry an ordnance launcher, a surveillance payload, electronic countermeasures, and other types of cargo. Contemplated aircraft can be quite large, for example having a wing span of at least 80 ft.