This application is based upon and claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 202320869778.0, filed on Apr. 18, 2023, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of aviation models, and in particular, to an all-metal airplane model.
An airplane model is a type of aircraft model with strong exploratory properties and is a necessary means of studying aviation science. In addition, its function as a tool for popularizing aviation knowledge and entertainment toys is more prominent.
The airplane model generally has a structure similar to that of an actual airplane, and is mainly composed of a fuselage, wings, a tail wing, a landing gear, a power control system, etc., where the wings are configured to generate a lift force when the airplane model flies, and a dihedral angle design of the wings provides a certain function in lateral stability of the airplane model during flight. The tail wing is composed of a horizontal tail and a vertical tail, where the horizontal tail cooperates with the wings to maintain pitching stability of the airplane model during flight, and the vertical tail cooperates with the wings to maintain directional stability of the airplane model during flight.
Currently, wings and tail wings of most airplane models are made of balsa wood or plastic. The airplane structure made of balsa wood is obtained by manufacturing wing components in advance, bonding the wing components into a whole according to a drawing, and finally covering a surface of the whole with a heat-shrinkable plastic skin. However, the balsa wood material used needs to be imported and has a relatively high cost, and the airplane structure is relatively difficult to manufacture. Once the wing or tail wing structure manufactured is damaged, the wing or tail wing structure needs to be completely replaced, which leads to a higher maintenance cost. In addition, the balsa wood material used for the airplane model cannot be recycled once the airplane model is damaged. A wing or tail wing structure made of plastic is a solid plate made of a blow-molded board or foamed plastic. Although the wing or tail wing structure made of plastic has good workmanship, beautiful appearance and various sizes and models, model components made of plastic need to be manufactured by using a mold, which does not allow airplane model enthusiasts to freely enjoy to their creative abilities. Moreover, during the flight of the airplane model, the plastic airplane itself has low strength, and is easily subjected to breakage and damage during a collision and cannot be repaired again, and the plastic airplane has a relatively high maintenance cost, and is prone to aging over time.
In view of the above shortcomings, there is an urgent need to design an airplane model with a low maintenance cost and high intensity, to ensure that airplane model enthusiasts fully enjoy to their creative abilities.
In view of the technical problem to be solved, the present disclosure provides an all-metal airplane model, which solves the problems of difficulty in production and high maintenance costs of an existing airplane model, thereby overcoming the shortcomings of the prior art.
To solve the above technical problem, the present disclosure provides an all-metal airplane model, including a fuselage, wings, a tail wing, a propeller, and a power control system, where the wing is designed according to an excellent aerofoil of the airplane model, a wing platform configured to connect the wing is arranged on the fuselage, and the power control system is mounted in the wing platform; the fuselage, the wing, the wing platform and the tail wing are all made of aluminum foil; an end portion of the wing and an end portion of the tail wing each are provided with an end wing structure made of a plastic film, and the end wing structure is configured to prevent the wing and the tail wing from being damaged during a collision; the propeller is mounted at a head of the fuselage, a head of the wing platform or a tail of the wing platform, the tail wing includes a horizontal elevator group mounted at a tail of the fuselage and a vertical steering rudder group mounted above the horizontal elevator group, and the horizontal elevator group and the vertical steering rudder group are both made of aluminum foil.
As an improvement of the present disclosure, the wing has a single-layer cambered surface structure made of aluminum foil, and a surface of the wing is a smooth cambered surface or has a frame structure.
As an improvement of the present disclosure, the wing has a double-layer cambered surface structure made of aluminum foil, the wing includes an upper cambered surface and a lower cambered surface, the upper cambered surface and the lower cambered surface of the wing are formed by integrally rolling aluminum foil according to an aerofoil structure, a rear edge line of the lower cambered surface is tangent to and connected to a middle portion of the upper cambered surface, a hollow cavity is provided between the upper cambered surface and the lower cambered surface, and a smooth cambered surface or a frame structure is used for a part from a rear edge line of the upper cambered surface to a position of the tangent rear edge line of the lower cambered surface.
As a further improvement of the present disclosure, the power control system includes a wireless receiver, an electronic governor, a brushless motor, a servo, and a battery, where the wireless receiver and the electronic governor are fixedly mounted on a middle portion of the fuselage, the wireless receiver is configured to receive a wireless signal transmitted by a remote control device and output a control signal to the electronic governor and the servo, and the electronic governor is configured to adjust a rotating speed of the brushless motor according to the control signal of the wireless receiver; the brushless motor is mounted at the head of the fuselage or the head or the tail of the wing platform, and the propeller is mounted on a driving shaft of the brushless motor; the servo includes an elevator servo and a steering servo, where the elevator servo and the steering servo are both fixed to the tail of the fuselage, and the elevator servo and the steering servo each are connected to the wireless receiver by a signal line; the elevator servo is connected to an elevator surface by a connecting rod, and the elevator servo controls a deflection angle of the elevator surface; the steering servo is connected to a steering rudder surface by a connecting rod, and the steering servo controls a deflection angle of the steering rudder surface; the battery is fixed to the middle portion of the fuselage, and the battery is configured to provide power for the wireless receiver, the brushless motor, and the servo.
As a further improvement of the present disclosure, the horizontal elevator group includes a horizontal stabilizing surface and the elevator surface, where the horizontal stabilizing surface is fixed to the tail of the fuselage, and a front edge line of the elevator surface is hinged to a rear edge line of the horizontal stabilizing surface; the vertical steering rudder group includes a vertical stabilizing surface and a steering rudder surface, where the vertical stabilizing surface is vertically and fixedly connected to an upper surface of the horizontal stabilizing surface, and a front edge line of the steering rudder surface is hinged to a rear edge line of the vertical stabilizing surface.
As a further improvement of the present disclosure, a smooth flat plate structure or a frame structure made of aluminum foil is used for each of the horizontal stabilizing surface, the vertical stabilizing surface, the elevator surface and the steering rudder surface.
As a further improvement of the present disclosure, at least one layer of plastic film is attached to a surface of the frame structure.
As an improvement of the present disclosure, the fuselage has a solid thin rod-shaped structure, the fuselage is made of carbon fiber, the middle portion of the fuselage is provided with an I-shaped connecting member, the wing is fixed to an upper portion of the fuselage by the connecting member, and the wireless receiver and the electronic governor in the power control system are fixedly connected to a side of the connecting member.
As an improvement of the present disclosure, the fuselage includes a plurality of sections of hollow tubular structures that are sequentially in inserted connection with each other, junctions of adjacent tubular structures each are provided with a connecting adhesive tape for fixing, a wing platform structure configured to connect the wing is fixedly arranged on the middle portion of the fuselage, and the wing is connected to the fuselage by the wing platform; and the wireless receiver and the electronic governor in the power control system are fixedly mounted inside the wing platform.
As an improvement of the present disclosure, a truss structure is used for the fuselage, the truss structure includes a front truss portion, a middle truss portion and a rear truss portion that are integrally connected to each other, an upper portion of the middle truss portion is fixedly connected to the wing, and the wireless receiver and the electronic governor in the power control system are mounted inside the middle truss portion.
With such a design, the present disclosure has at least the following advantages:
The above is only an overview of the technical solutions of the present disclosure. In order to understand the technical means of the present disclosure more clearly, the present disclosure will be further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and specific implementations.
1—Fuselage; 2—Wing; 21—End wing structure; 22—Upper cambered surface; 23—Lower cambered surface; 24—Cambered leading edge; 25—Hollow cavity; 3—Tail wing; 31—Horizontal stabilizing surface; 32—Elevator surface; 33—Vertical stabilizing surface; 34—Steering rudder surface; 4—Propeller; 5—Landing gear; 6—Wing platform.
Examples of the embodiments of the present disclosure are shown in the accompanying drawings. The same or similar reference numerals represent the same or similar components or components having the same or similar functions throughout. The embodiments described below with reference to the accompanying drawings are exemplary, are used only for explaining the present disclosure, and should not be construed as a limitation to the present disclosure.
In the description of the present disclosure, it should be noted that, unless otherwise clearly specified, meanings of terms “mount”, “connected”, and “connect” should be understood in aboard sense. For example, the term may be a fixed connection, a removable connection, or an integral connection; may be a mechanical connection or an electrical connection; and may be a direct connection, an indirect connection by using an intermediate medium, or internal communication between two components. Those of ordinary skill in the art may understand specific meanings of the above terms in the present disclosure based on a specific situation.
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The airplane model in this embodiment has atypical aerodynamic configuration structure, such as orthodox configuration, canard configuration, blended-wing-body configuration and flying-wing configuration, or may have a hydroplane configuration structure. On this basis, the airplane model in this embodiment improves the aerodynamic performance. The wing 2 in this embodiment has an aerofoil structure, and a wing platform 6 configured to connect the wing is arranged on the fuselage 1. The power control system is mounted in the wing platform 6. The fuselage 1, the wing 2, the wing platform 6 and the tail wing 3 are all made of aluminum foil. An end portion of the wing 2 and an end portion of the tail wing 3 each are provided with an end wing structure 21 made of a plastic film, and the end wing structure 21 is configured to prevent the wing 2 and the tail wing 3 from being damaged during a collision. The aerofoil structure used for the wing 2 in this embodiment is improved on the basis of a universal aerofoil of an ordinary airplane model. The wing 2 and the tail wing 3 are both made of aluminum foil. The end portion of the wing 2 and the end portion of the tail wing 3 each are provided with the end wing structure 21 made of the plastic film, and the end wing structure 21 is mainly configured to protect the wing and the tail wing. Since the wing and the tail wing in this embodiment are made of metal aluminum foil, an edge end portion of the wing and an edge end portion of the tail wing are relatively light, thin and sharp. When a collision occurs, the edge end portion of the wing and the edge end portion of the tail wing are very easily subjected to damage, or even cause personal injury. In order to solve this problem, in this embodiment, the end wing structure 21 made of the plastic film is bonded and fixed to each of the edge end portion of the wing and the edge end portion of the tail wing, and buffering is performed by using the flexible end wing structure 21, which can prevent damage to the edge end portion of the wing and the edge end portion of the tail wing, and can also prevent personal damage. In this embodiment, since the wing 2 and the tail wing 3 are made of aluminum foil, the wing and the tail wing are more convenient to manufacture and are more suitable for airplane model enthusiasts. Since the aluminum foil is malleable and has a certain strength, the aluminum foil is more in line with the wing 2 and the tail wing 3 for manufacturing the airplane model, and enables the airplane model enthusiasts to give play to their creativity. Moreover, when the wing 2 and the tail wing 3 made of the aluminum foil are used for the airplane model, once the wing 2 or the tail wing 3 is damaged during flight, damaged parts can be repaired without replacing the parts, which better facilitates airplane model maintenance. In addition, the wing 2 and the tail wing 3 made of the aluminum foil further have other advantages. For example, the wing or the tail wing made of plastic or balsa wood is generally relatively thick due to manufacturing and strength requirements for the airplane model, so that the overall resistance to the airplane model is relatively high, and some power needs to be consumed during flight to overcome the overall resistance to the airplane model. As a result, the energy consumption is relatively high. In this embodiment, the wing or the tail wing made of the aluminum foil is lighter and thinner, so that the overall resistance to the airplane model is relatively small, and thus the energy consumption during flight is relatively low. Of course, it should be noted that the fuselage 1, the wing 2, the wing platform 6 and the tail wing 3 in this embodiment are all preferably made of aluminum foil, but other metal materials are not excluded. For example, copper foil, etc. may also be used.
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As another alternative structure, this embodiment further discloses wing 2 with a double-layer cambered surface structure made of aluminum foil. As shown in
The tail wing 3 in this embodiment includes a horizontal elevator group mounted at a tail of the fuselage 1 and a vertical steering rudder group mounted above the horizontal elevator group, and the horizontal elevator group and the vertical steering rudder group are both made of aluminum foil. The horizontal elevator group includes horizontal stabilizing surface 31 and elevator surface 32, the horizontal stabilizing surface 31 is fixed to the tail of the fuselage 1, and a front edge line of the elevator surface 32 is hinged to a rear edge line of the horizontal stabilizing surface 31; the vertical steering rudder group includes vertical stabilizing surface 33 and steering rudder surface 34, where the vertical stabilizing surface 33 is vertically and fixedly connected to an upper surface of the horizontal stabilizing surface 31, and a front edge line of the steering rudder surface 34 is hinged to a rear edge line of the vertical stabilizing surface 33.
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The power control system is mounted in the wing platform 6. The power control system includes a wireless receiver, an electronic governor, a brushless motor, a servo, and a battery, where the wireless receiver and the electronic governor are fixedly mounted on a middle portion of the fuselage 1, the wireless receiver is configured to receive a wireless signal transmitted by a remote control device and output a control signal to the electronic governor and the servo, and the electronic governor is configured to adjust a rotating speed of the brushless motor according to the control signal of the wireless receiver; the brushless motor is mounted at the head of the fuselage 1, a propeller 4 is mounted at the head of the fuselage 1, the head of the wing platform 6 or the tail of the wing platform 6, and the propeller 4 is mounted on a driving shaft of the brushless motor; the servo includes an elevator servo and a steering servo, where the elevator servo and the steering servo are both fixed to the fuselage 1, and the elevator servo and the steering servo each are connected to the wireless receiver by a signal line; the elevator servo is connected to the elevator surface 32 by a connecting rod, and the elevator servo controls a deflection angle of the elevator surface 32; the steering servo is connected to the steering rudder surface 34 by a connecting rod, and the steering servo controls a deflection angle of the steering rudder surface 34; the battery is fixed to the middle portion of the fuselage 1, and the battery is configured to provide power for the wireless receiver, the brushless motor, and the servo.
Further, the fuselage 1 in this embodiment serves as a main load-bearing structure of the airplane model, and the strength of the fuselage affects the overall strength of the airplane model. The fuselage 1 in this embodiment may have a solid thin rod-shaped structure. As shown in
Further, as an alternative, the fuselage 1 in this embodiment may include a plurality of sections of hollow tubular structures. As shown in
As another alternative, a truss structure may be used for the fuselage 1 in this embodiment. As shown in
The landing gear 5 in this embodiment includes two groups of front landing gears 5 and one group of rear landing gears 5, and the front landing gears 5 and the rear landing gears 5 jointly support the airplane model to ensure the stability of takeoff or landing of the airplane model.
The above are only preferred embodiments of the present disclosure, and are not intended to limit the present disclosure in any form. Simple alterations, equivalent changes or modifications made by those skilled in the art using the technical contents disclosed above fall within the scope of protection of the present disclosure.
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202320869778.0 | Apr 2023 | CN | national |