Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System, apparatus and method for long endurance vertical takeoff and landing vehicle
- Patent Title (中): 长寿命垂直起降车的系统,设备及方法
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Application No.: US14507198Application Date: 2014-10-06
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Publication No.: US09540101B2Publication Date: 2017-01-10
- Inventor: James Donald Paduano , Paul Nils Dahlstrand , John Brooke Wissler , Adam Woodworth
- Applicant: Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation
- Applicant Address: US VA Manassas
- Assignee: Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation
- Current Assignee: Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US VA Manassas
- Agency: McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd.
- Agent Michael Stanley Tomsa
- Main IPC: B64C27/52
- IPC: B64C27/52 ; B64C29/04 ; B64C29/02 ; B64C39/02 ; B64C29/00 ; B64C3/42 ; B64C5/02 ; B64C9/00 ; B64C25/10 ; B64D27/02 ; B64D43/00

Abstract:
A vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft according to an aspect of the present invention comprises a fuselage, an empennage having an all-moving horizontal stabilizer located at a tail end of the fuselage, a wing having the fuselage positioned approximately halfway between the distal ends of the wing, wherein the wing is configured to transform between a substantially straight wing configuration and a canted wing configuration using a canted hinge located on each side of the fuselage. The VTOL aircraft may further includes one or more retractable pogo supports, wherein a retractable pogo support is configured to deploy from each of the wing's distal ends.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150336666A1 SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR LONG ENDURANCE VERTICAL TAKEOFF AND LANDING VEHICLE Public/Granted day:2015-11-26
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