Tiltwing

With flipper (also often mistakenly pivoting vanes ) is a construction of aircraft and aircraft denoted, in which the wings can be pivoted about the transverse axis of the aircraft, to change the direction of thrust of the engines. So you can be the change aircraft.

Bottom hung in a vertical position allow vertical take-offs and landings ( VTOL). In the transition phase, the wings are increasingly tilted horizontally to produce forward motion and so the lift on the wings themselves. The transition from hover to horizontal flight and back, is called Transition.

Closely related to this design are the tilt-rotor aircraft, but not the entire wing surface, but only the engines tilt.

Although there were already functional types of aircraft with hung windows in the past ( for example, the Ling- Temco - Vought XC -142 ), this construction could not prevail.

Types of aircraft with hung windows

• Aeronautical engineering
• Convertiplane