An aircraft includes a fuselage with a circular airfoil body supported
thereabove on a vertical drive shaft mechanism. The airfoil body includes
an upper disk forming an upper surface of the body and a lower disk
forming a lower surface of the body in which the upper and lower disks
are supported at a fixed spacing on the vertical drive shaft mechanism
for counter-rotation. Vanes are supported in both the upper and lower
disks which are movable between a takeoff position in which the vanes are
supported in respective openings in the disk for diverting air downwardly
through the openings in the disks as the disks are rotated and a cruising
position in which a surface of the vanes are continuous with the
respective upper and lower surfaces of the bodies.