Abstract:
An aircraft has a fuselage designed essentially as an aerostatic lift body and combined lift and propulsion devices which are articulated on the fuselage, are provided with propellers and form propulsion units and which in each case are tiltable between a lift position, in which the respective propeller rotation plane is essentially horizontal and the output shaft of the associated drive, said output shaft acting on the respective propeller shaft, is essentially vertical, and a propulsion position, in which the respective propeller rotation plane is essentially vertical and the output shaft of the associated drive, said output shaft acting on the respective propeller shaft, is essentially horizontal. The propeller rotation plane has all-round inclinability relative to the output shaft of the associated drive, said output shaft acting on the propeller shaft.
Abstract:
An aircraft has a fuselage designed essentially as an aerostatic lift body. Combined lift and propulsion devices are articulated on the fuselage, are provided with propellers and form propulsion units and which in each case can tilt between a lift position, in which the respective propeller rotation plane is essentially horizontal and a propulsion position, in which the respective propeller rotation plane is essentially vertical. Additionally the propeller rotation plane has all-round inclination relative to the output shaft of the associated drive device.
Abstract:
The airship has a fuselage (1) built as an aerostatic buoyant body, having propellers (11,12,13,14) with respective shafts (121) and drive units (7,8,9,10). The respective propeller shaft (121) rotation plane (113) can be tilted all round relative to a drive shaft (104) of the allocated propeller drive, and the hull also does duty as aerodynamic float in a ship devoid of activatable aerodynamic steering system. The hull can be circular or elliptical to give an elliptical section whose upper shell is more steeply curved than the flatter bottom shell. The hull is fitted with a stiffener ring in its equatorial belt with the ring also of elliptical section in its exterior.