• Can transition to and from conventional flight using the same components used for vertical flight
• Excellent vertical lift and hover capability
• Efficient high forward speed
• Distributed flight control system that seeks level horizontal flight unless perturbed by a human or automated pilot
• Pilot skill reduction
• Inherent remote or automated piloting and formation flying
• Interchangeable modules for economy of mass production
• Rigid, thick rotary wing with mechanical or variable camber control
• No swash plate, shaft seals or engine torque
• Transportation system separate from payload system
• Scalable from miniature Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) to heavy left vehicles
• Equipment module that provides power to all payloads and space for some payloads like GPS-inertial navigation system, automated pilot and video cameras for remote pilot
• Equipment module yaw orientation device
• Perch landing, refueling and aerial refueling
• Conformal landing gear that attaches below the hub and above the equipment module, and straddles the payload so the payload need not support the Blade Flyer or have landing gear, and retracts around symmetric payloads to conform with a flat plate a the rear of the vehicle
• One concept that can accommodate a variety of configurations, payloads and powerplants
• Vertical hub axis (conventional) with conformal landing gear
• Accommodating payloads that attach to the Equipment Module and accommodate perch or air refueling probes, like communications relay, reconnaissance, mapping equipment, fire retardant, fertilizer or insecticide sprayers and tanks, loud speakers to deter pests, non-lethal or lethal weapons, an aerodynamic container for packages, etc.
• Unaccommodating payloads like a harnessed human, cargo net, logs, pipes, shipping container, or a low-drag fuselage for humans, pilot and other cargo
• Vertical hub axis (conventional) without conformal landing gear
• Low-drag fuselage with conventional landing gear
• Swept blades on hub that retracts into fuselage optimized for high subsonic speed with retractable landing gear
• Hub axis coincident with fuselage axis
• Fluid or grain tank with landing gear
• Swept blades on hub in fuselage optimized for supersonic flight with retractable landing gear
• Turbojet, ramjet, turbo prop, piston prop, catalytic and pulse jet (have design for quieter and more efficient pulse jet).
• Multiple engines
• Blade extensions
• Multiple Blade Flyers connected to different hoist points of a heavy payload.
• Coupled Blade Flyers connected to a single hoist point of a heavy payload.