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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2008
Applicant:
Eric W. Walliser, Mesa, AZ (US);
Inventor:
Eric W. Walliser, Mesa, AZ (US);
Assignee:
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 27/82 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Systems and methods for rotor/wing aircraft are disclosed. In one embodiment, an aircraft includes an airframe, a high-lift canard and tail, a rotor/wing, a propulsion system, and a drive assembly. The drive assembly, which may include a radial inflow turbine, is configured to extract work from the propulsion system to selectively rotate the rotor/wing assembly thus enabling the aircraft to conduct rotary-wing flight, fixed wing flight as well as smoothly transition between the two modes of flight.