AVIATRANSFORMER Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC B60F5/02 

FIELD: transport.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to amphibious vehicles, particularly, to development light amphibious airplane. Proposed aviatransformer has fuselage with streamlined cockpit and bottom section made up of boat bottom with keel, three-wheel retractable undercarriage with controlled front wheel. Two-keel tail unit is attached in cantilever to fuselage on beams. Engine with pusher propeller is fitted on fuselage rear wall closed by fairing. Top wing has outer panels folding along fuselage lateral surfaces, panel tips being located in lower half-plane in center wing section wherein parachute and fuel tanks are arranged. Fuselage central, nose and rail parts make an aerodynamic minor-elongation wing with edges changing, in lower central part, into two parallel constant-width keels with bases, as-folded, are located in wing panel one plane at distance that does not interfere with propeller rotation.

EFFECT: decreased sizes, short takeoff and landing.

9 cl, 6 dwg