Patent ID: 7946527

Claim:
An aircraft with a body and swinging and folding rigid left and right wings, each wing including: at least one control surface, a hinge joint between said control surface and the rest of said wing, and a pivot joint near an edge and the inboard end of said wing, wherein: the entirety of each of said wings is equipped to swing relative to said body of said aircraft using said pivot joint from a fixed position for flight to a position for storage, said rest of one of said wings in part overlaps in plan said rest of the other of said wings in said positions for storage, said control surface of each one of said wings does not overlap in plan said control surface of the other of said wings in said positions for storage, each said control surface is equipped to fold relative to said rest of said wing using said hinge joint from a position for flight to a position for storage, and said control surfaces are folded sharply toward the same direction relative to said rest of said wings in said positions for storage.