Patent ID: 9688398
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: B64C

Claim:
1. An aircraft capable of fixed wing and rotor flight modes, comprising: a fuselage main body defining a longitudinal axis, the fuselage main body having a nose, a tail, and a rotatable wing attachment region disposed between the nose section and the tail section; a plurality of dual-purpose wings, including a first wing and a second wing, rotatably mounted to said wing attachment region of said fuselage main body for a fixed wing flight mode and for a rotor flight mode, in which the fixed wing flight mode is defined as flight in which said wings are maintained rotationally stationary relative to the longitudinal axis and the rotor flight mode is defined as flight in which said wings rotate about the longitudinal axis; and a plurality of engines secured to said wings, including a first engine secured to said first wing in an intermediate region of said first wing and a second engine secured to said second wing in an intermediate region of said second wing, in which the plurality of engines are each solely confined to the wings, said first engine and said second engine including propellers.