Aircraft with overlapped rotors
AssigneeSikorsky Aircraft Corporation
InventorsMark R. Alber, Jeffrey Parkhurst, Charles Gayagoy
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Abstract
An aircraft is provided and includes a fuselage from which a tilt-wing respectively extends, first prop-rotors, which are formed to define first rotor disks and which are respectively disposed on first portions of each side of the tilt-wing, second prop-rotors, which are formed to define second rotor disks and which are respectively disposed on second portions of each side of the tilt-wing such that the corresponding pairs of first and second rotor disks overlap, and a drive shaft system. The drive shaft system is configured to synchronize respective operations of the first and second prop-rotors.
Claims8
An aircraft, comprising:
- a fuselage from which a tilt-wing respectively extends;
- first prop-rotors, which are formed to define first rotor disks and which are respectively disposed on first portions of each side of the tilt-wing;
- second prop-rotors, which are formed to define second rotor disks and which are respectively disposed on second portions of each side of the tilt-wing such that the corresponding pairs of first and second rotor disks overlap;
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- a drive shaft system configured to synchronize respective operations of the first and second prop-rotors.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.