Short landing air vehicle by the use of rotating wings
View Patent ↗An air vehicle 1 has a port and starboard wing 2 capable of transitioning in mid-flight from fixed to counter-rotation. This generates lift at low airspeeds and enables a short landing to be performed without the need for a runway. The counter rotating wings are intermeshed at 90 degrees and angled slightly to avoid collision. Deployable counterweights 5 balance the rotating wings.
1. I claim an air vehicle capable of transitioning from fixed wing flight to rotary wing flight comprising:
a. two hubs positioned at the top or above the air vehicle fuselage with one hub being offset to the port side and the other to the starboard side and both hub axes being fixed and near vertical but slightly inclined from each other,
b. a port wing attached to the port hub and a starboard wing attached to the starboard hub,
c. a mechanism to lock both wings to their hubs during fixed wing flight but unlocks at flight transition to allow the port wing to rotate clockwise around the port hub axis, and the starboard wing to rotate counter clockwise around the starboard hub axis as viewed from above said air vehicle,
d. a mechanism to initiate wing rotation,
e. counter weights that rotate around the hub axes diametrically opposite to the wings' centre of gravity to minimize unbalanced rotating forces on either hub to within acceptable limits,
f. a mechanism to advance, during flight transition, one wing against the other wing in the direction of rotation until both wings intermesh spatially with each other, and
g. a mechanism to maintain aforementioned intermeshing during wing rotation
whereby both wings that were previously fixed begin to rotate in opposite directions in a manner that maintains usual leading edge airflow direction for both wings, prohibits wing collision and allows each wing to sweep above its opposite hub thereby allowing said air vehicle to land near vertically within a short distance after fixed wing flight.