Flight unit for an aircraft
AssigneeGermaniumtech GmbH
InventorsWerner Hufenbach, Jens Werner
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Abstract
The invention relates to a flight unit for a vertical take-off and landing aircraft with a plurality of drive units arranged on a wing assembly, wherein the wing assembly comprises longitudinally extended wing assembly struts connected to one another at node points. According to the invention, a certain number of the wing assembly struts each comprise at least one wing with aerofoil form, which wing is arranged or configured for rotation in a longitudinal section of the wing assembly strut which extends longitudinally between two nodes.
Claims13
A flight unit for a vertically take-off and landing aircraft, wherein the flight unit comprises several drive units arranged on a framework structure comprising longitudinally extended framework struts interconnected at fixed node points, wherein at least some of the framework struts comprise at least one wing of an aerofoil shape that is arranged or configured to be rotatable relative to a wing section of the framework strut and/or relative to at least one support section of the framework strut, and wherein a support section of a framework strut is arranged and/or configured to be rotatable relative to another support section of the same framework strut.
A flight unit for a vertically take-off and landing aircraft, wherein the flight unit comprises several drive units arranged on a framework structure comprising longitudinally extended framework struts interconnected at fixed node points, wherein at least some of the framework struts comprise at least one wing of an aerofoil shape that is arranged or configured to be rotatable relative to a wing section of the framework strut and/or relative to at least one support section of the framework strut, and wherein at least some of the several drive units comprise at least one turbine propeller.
A flight unit for a vertically take-off and landing aircraft, wherein the flight unit comprises several drive units arranged on a framework structure comprising longitudinally extended framework struts interconnected at fixed node points, wherein at least some of the framework struts comprise at least one wing of an aerofoil shape that is arranged or configured to be rotatable relative to a wing section of the framework strut and/or relative to at least one support section of the framework strut, and wherein wings are distributed within the framework structure at different framework struts in such a way that a pair of wings associated with outer framework struts and a pair of wings associated with inner framework struts are symmetrically opposite to one another as viewed from a central axis of the flight unit.
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