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- Patent Title: Methods and apparatus for space-efficient aircraft deployment
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Application No.: US17526641Application Date: 2021-11-15
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Publication No.: US11780556B2Publication Date: 2023-10-10
- Inventor: Tony Shuo Tao , Lauren Trollinger Wolfe , Lansing Wei , Francesco Giannini
- Applicant: Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, a subsidiary of The Boeing Company
- Applicant Address: US VA Manassas
- Assignee: Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation
- Current Assignee: Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US VA Manassas
- Agency: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC
- Main IPC: B64C3/56
- IPC: B64C3/56 ; B64D17/80 ; B64C3/30 ; B64C3/18

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for deployable wing portions of an aircraft. An example method of deploying an aircraft includes separating the aircraft from a launch vehicle, the aircraft having a wing pivotably coupled to a fuselage, rotating, about an axis of rotation, the wing relative to the fuselage from a first rotational orientation to a second rotational orientation different from the first rotational orientation, wherein, in the first rotational orientation, the wing extends along a direction that substantially aligns with a longitudinal axis of the fuselage, and extending the wing in a lateral direction away from the fuselage in the second rotational orientation.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230150648A1 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SPACE-EFFICIENT AIRCRAFT DEPLOYMENT Public/Granted day:2023-05-18
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