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US 6,601,795 B1Granted
Air vehicle having scissors wings
OwnerZhuo Cheninventor
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Abstract
An air vehicle, such as an aircraft, an unmanned air vehicle, a missile, or an aero bomb that has a fuselage and two main wings each of which has a left side wing and a right side wing. Both of the main wings are rotatably mounted on the fuselage via one or two pivots or hollow turrets so that both of them can be yawed during flight to optimize flying efficiency under various flying conditions.
Claims2
An air vehicle having scissors wings comprising:
- (a) at least one fuselage means, and
- (b) two wing means, and
- (c) said two wing means are the only wing means that generate lift for said air vehicle at flight except control surfaces including canards, horizontal tail, elevators, and said fuselage means, and
- (d) each of the wing means has a left side wing and a right side wing, and
- (e) both of the wing means are rotatably mounted on the fuselage means via at least one pivot means or hollow turret means, and
- (f) the two wing means can be yawed in opposite directions about said pivot means or hollow turret means, and
- whereby the air vehicle can optimize its flying efficiency at various flying conditions by adjusting the yaw angles of both of the wing means.
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