Toyota is being cagey. This patent is only for morphing and stacking the wings. Flight controls & propulsion are two of the big things to follow.
Verrry interrrresting!
To: BwanaNdege
2 posted on
09/18/2015 7:08:10 AM PDT by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
To: BwanaNdege
Prior art...
3 posted on
09/18/2015 7:08:13 AM PDT by
Nervous Tick
(There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
To: BwanaNdege
The inventors, Robert W. Roe and Umesh N. Gandhi are serious engineers.
Here is another of their related patents, also assigned to Toyota (i.e. their employer)
http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20150251747
SMART MATERIAL TRAILING EDGE VARIABLE CHORD MORPHING WING
Gandhi has a ton of patents listed.
5 posted on
09/18/2015 7:15:54 AM PDT by
BwanaNdege
("When the left wins, they're in power; when the right wins, they're in office." - Mark Steyn)
To: BwanaNdege
Multiple wings mean a lot of drag and center of gravity problems. There are reasons airplanes look the way they do, it isn’t like a million alternatives haven’t been tried.
9 posted on
09/18/2015 7:23:50 AM PDT by
DaxtonBrown
(http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
To: BwanaNdege
11 posted on
09/18/2015 7:31:22 AM PDT by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /Sarc tag necessary?)
To: BwanaNdege
To: BwanaNdege
16 posted on
09/18/2015 7:47:51 AM PDT by
Seruzawa
(All those memories will be lost,in time, like tears in rain.)
To: BwanaNdege; Maine Mariner; mickie; pax_et_bonum; flaglady47
I don't even want a drone hovering around my roof, let alone a flying-car circling my neighborhood.
It's really fun and exciting to dream about an invention like this...but I hope nothing comes of it in my lifetime.
I pay through the nose for auto insurance mostly because of all the nutcases on the road today.
I don't even want to think of nutcases, pinheads and drunks flying the friendly skies of America......at all. Yikes!!!
Leni
19 posted on
09/18/2015 8:34:27 AM PDT by
MinuteGal
(It's Not "Immigration", Stupid....IT'S INVASION !")
To: BwanaNdege
http://mojaveskies.blogspot.com/2008/07/toyota-in-sky.html
“Recent flights of the Toyota Advanced Aircraft (or TAA-1) at Mojave, along with some cryptic comments by Toyota about their aviation projects, has generated speculation that Toyota may be resurrecting the idea of entering the general aviation market.”
From 2008, but nevertheless interesting.
20 posted on
09/18/2015 10:18:55 AM PDT by
BwanaNdege
("When the left wins, they're in power; when the right wins, they're in office." - Mark Steyn)
To: BwanaNdege
Shouldn’t Mitsubishi be doing this. I think they’ve done aviation related work in the past.
21 posted on
09/18/2015 11:04:57 AM PDT by
GMMC0987
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