FLYING VEHICLE Russian patent published in 1999 - IPC

FIELD: aircraft manufacture; manufacture of motorized ornithopters. SUBSTANCE: flying vehicle includes fuselage, engine with shaft, stabilizer, fin, rudder articulated with trailing edge of fin and elevator articulated with trailing edge of stabilizer, as well as levers and rods. Flying vehicle is provided with two single-throw crankshafts, bushes, brackets, connecting rods, torsion bars, double universal joints, rods, special brackets, three flexible universal joints, four ball joints, rod, rocker arm and reduction gear. All these members form kinematic system converts rotation of engine shaft into flapping motion of wings. Angle of attack of wings changes depending on phase of this motion. Flying vehicle controls include control stick and pedals for performing various flying operations, take-off and landing. EFFECT: enhanced economical efficiency. 2 dwg