Patent ID: 8602348

Claim:
A vertical take-off and landing flying-wing aircraft having a unitary wing-structure and a fore-aft axis, wherein: (a) the unitary wing-structure comprises a single elongate wing extending laterally to each side of the fore-aft axis, the single elongate wing having a single extremity located on either side of the fore-aft axis, and the single elongate wing is the sole wing of the vertical take-off and landing flying wing aircraft; (b) a single pair of thrust-vectoring propulsion units is mounted at each single extremity of the single unitary elongate wing via a mounting that is individual to the pair of thrust-vectoring propulsion units and operatively interlinking the two thrust-vectoring propulsion units with one another, and each of the pair of thrust-vectoring propulsion units being independently pivotable about an axis which is fixed relative to the unitary wing-structure; and (c) each thrust-vectoring propulsion unit is operable to produce a vector thrust selectively and variably between downwards for lift and rearwards for forward flight.