Patent ID: 7815144
Filing Date: 2010-10-19
Classification: B60F,B62K,B64C

Abstract:
1. A vehicle that can operate as either a motorcycle or an autogiro, said vehicle having a flight mode and a motorcycle mode, said vehicle comprising: a frame having a front part and a rear part; a center-line that passes from the front of said vehicle to the rear of said vehicle through the center of said vehicle such that said vehicle's weight is distributed nearly equally to either side of said center-line; at least one propeller mounted to a propeller barrel that is rotatably mounted to said vehicle's frame at the junction where said frame's front part fixedly connects to said frame's rear part; an engine mounted to the rear part of said frame, wherein said engine powers said propeller in said flight mode; a cockpit fixedly mounted to the front part of said frame, said cockpit comprising means for controlling said vehicle; at least one aircraft lift means comprising: at least one rotor that is rotatably mounted to said frame when said vehicle is in said flight mode; a front wheel steerably and rotatably mounted to the front part of said frame along the said vehicle's center-line; and a rear wheel that is is rotatably mounted to the rear part of said frame along said vehicle's center-line and is powered by said engine in said motorcycle mode.