Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Tilting closed-wing aircraft
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Application No.: US16444686Application Date: 2019-06-18
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Publication No.: US11279478B2Publication Date: 2022-03-22
- Inventor: Carlos Alexander Fenny , Nicholas Brodeur , Rohn Lee Olson , Kevin Morris
- Applicant: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TX Fort Worth
- Assignee: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
- Current Assignee: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Fort Worth
- Agency: Lightfoot & Alford PLLC
- Main IPC: B64C29/00
- IPC: B64C29/00 ; B64C39/06 ; B64C3/10
Abstract:
An aircraft that is convertible between a helicopter mode and an airplane mode. The aircraft includes a fuselage with a longitudinal axis and a vertical axis and distributed propulsion array that surrounds the vertical axis when the aircraft is operating the helicopter mode and surrounds the longitudinal axis when the aircraft is operating in the airplane mode.
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