FLYING VEHICLE (VARIANTS) Russian patent published in 2003 - IPC

FIELD: aviation. SUBSTANCE: proposed flying vehicle has fuselage, wing, power plant located in tail section of fuselage, front horizontal tail unit and landing gear. Wing is shifted backward relative to fuselage and is tapered in form. Bevel shear provided at point of connection of fuselage with wing on upper part of fuselage changes to horizontal platform on which air intakes of power plant are located. Variants differ in transversal V-configuration (sweep) by wing span. In first case, root portion of wing with front extension has zero V-configuration and wing panels have positive V-configuration (sweep-back). In second case, root portion of wing with front extension has larger V-configuration as compared with wing panels. EFFECT: improved noise characteristics. 3 cl, 4 dwg