Flying-wing aircraft

A vertical take-off and landing flying-wing aircraft having a unitary wing-structure and a fore-aft axis,

• wherein:
• (a) the unitary wing-structure comprises a continuous single elongate wing extending laterally to each side of the fore-aft axis and generally defining a plane, the single elongate wing having a single extremity located at each side of the fore-aft axis, and the single elongate wing is the sole wing of the vertical take-off and landing flying wing aircraft;
• (b) a single pair of thrust-vectoring propulsion units being mounted at each single extremity of the single elongate wing via a mounting that is individual to the pair of thrust-vectoring propulsion units and operatively interlinking the two thrust-vectoring propulsion units with one another, and each of the pair of thrust-vectoring propulsion units being independently pivotable about an axis which is fixed relative to the unitary wing-structure;
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• (c) each thrust-vectoring propulsion unit is operable to vector thrust produced by each thrust-vectoring propulsion unit selectively and variably between downward for lift and rearward for forward flight;
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• the wing-structure has one of a V-tail and at least one central, stabilizer tail-fin.

A vertical take-off and landing flying-wing aircraft having a fore-aft axis, the aircraft comprising:

• (a) a single elongate wing extending laterally to each side of the fore-aft axis, the elongate wing terminating in a single wing-extremity of the single elongate wing located on either side of the fore-aft axis;
• (b) two thrust-vectoring propulsion units mounted at each single wing-extremity of the single elongate wing via a mounting that is individual to the two thrust-vectoring propulsion units and operatively interlinking the two thrust-vectoring propulsion units with one another, the two thrust-vectoring propulsion units at each respective single wing-extremity of the single wing being carried on respective individual arms that are independently pivotable to the respective wing-extremity fore and aft of one another;
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• (c) a drive mechanism at each single wing-extremity, the drive mechanism at each respective single wing-extremity intercoupling the pivoted arms of the two thrust-vectoring propulsion units mounted at the respective wing-extremity for varying the angular displacement of these two thrust-vectoring propulsion units relative to the single elongate wing.