Aircraft
AssigneeLentola Logistics Oy
InventorMarkus Hohenthal
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Abstract
An electrically powered vertical takeoff and vertical landing (VTOL) aircraft, which comprises at least two main propellers, wherein the main propellers are adapted to generate at least 70% of the aircraft propulsion. The aircraft also comprises at least one adjustment propeller, which has its propeller slipstream adapted to produce a torque relative to a first axis or the first and second axes with respect to a fuselage of the aircraft for turning the aircraft relative to said first axis or said first and second axes. In addition, not less than 35%, but not more than 85%, of the aircraft's mass is adapted to lie, during takeoff and/or landing, on a rear side of a propeller line of said main propellers with respect to a nose of the aircraft.
Claims15
An electrically powered vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft, comprising at least two main propellers adapted to produce at least 70% of propulsion of the aircraft, wherein at least one of the at least two main propellers is a pivotable adjustment propeller having a propeller slipstream adapted to produce a torque relative to a first axis or the first and a second axes with respect to a fuselage of the aircraft for turning the fuselage of the aircraft relative to said first axis or said first and the second axes from a takeoff and landing positions in a vertical plane to a cruising position in a horizontal plane and vice versa,
- and wherein not less than 35%, but not more than 85% of a mass of the aircraft during a takeoff or a landing is on a rear side of a propeller line of said main propellers with respect to a nose of the aircraft.
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