公开(公告)号：US10131426B2

公开(公告)日：2018-11-20

申请号：US14915101

申请日：2014-08-29

申请人： Airbus Defence and Space GmbH

发明人： Michael Judas ,  Friederike Stratenberg ,  Jan Van Toor ,  Werner Scholz ,  Berthold Karrais ,  Wolfgang Stangl

IPC分类号： B64C27/08 ,  B64C29/00 ,  B64C3/38 ,  B64C5/08 ,  B64C27/473 ,  B64C39/02 ,  B64C39/08 ,  B64D27/02 ,  B64D27/24

摘要： The invention relates to an aircraft which can both take off and land vertically and can hover and also fly horizontally at a high cruising speed. The aircraft has a support structure, a wing structure, at least three and preferably at least four lifting rotors and at least one thrust drive. The wing structure is designed to generate a lifting force for the aircraft during horizontal motion. To achieve this the wing structure has at least one mainplane provided with a profile that generates dynamic lift. The wing structure is preferably designed as a tandem wing structure. Each of the lifting rotors is fixed to the support structure, has a propeller and is designed to generate a lifting force for the aircraft by means of a rotation of the propeller, said force acting in a vertical direction. The thrust drive is designed to generate a thrust force on the support structure, said force acting in a horizontal direction. The lifting rotors can have a simple construction, i.e. they can have a simple rigid propeller for example, and a vertical take-off or hovering of the aircraft can be controlled, in a similar manner to quadcopters, by a simple control of the speeds of the lifting rotors. High cruising speeds can be achieved as a result of the additional horizontally acting thrust drive.