VTOL aircraft

A VTOL aircraft, comprising:

• a fuselage having an upper and a lower surface portion, said upper and lower surface portions together forming a predetermined surface contour defining a lifting body;
• first propulsion means coupled to said lower surface of said fuselage for displacing said aircraft in a substantially vertical direction while using a suction effect of said first propulsion means for generating an aerodynamic lift for augmenting a total lifting thrust by displacing air from a central zone below said fuselage to allow additional air to be inserted by atmospheric pressure differential and to collide with said central zone portion of said lower surface of said fuselage whereby a high pressure region is formed adjacent said central lower surface portion of said fuselage, and by simultaneously displacing air from a zone above said fuselage whereby a region of a lower pressure is formed above said fuselage which in combination provides said suction generated lift said first propulsion means including a plurality of rotatably driven rotors disposed about a perimeter portion of said fuselage in spaced relation each to another, each of said rotors having an axis of rotation disposed a predetermined distance from a perimeter edge surface of said fuselage, each of said rotors being positionally located a predetermined distance from said lower surface of said fuselage;
• and,
• control means for regulating said suction generated aerodynamic lift during vertical and horizontal flight.