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US 10,472,058 B2Granted
VTOL aircraft with step-up overlapping propellers
AssigneeShanghai Autoflight Co., Ltd.
InventorYu Tian
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Abstract
A vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) fixed-wing aircraft having overlapping propellers and low handing vertical stabilizers disposed on the rear end of the aircraft.
Claims20
A VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) aircraft comprising:
- a body;
- a left main wing and a right main wing coupled to the body;
- a left secondary wing and a right secondary wing coupled to the body;
- a left linear support connecting the left main wing to the left secondary wing;
- a right linear support connecting the right main wing to the right secondary wing, wherein the left linear support is parallel to the right linear support;
- at least two lifting propellers disposed on a top surface of each of the left and right linear supports, wherein the at least two lifting propellers on each of the left and right linear supports are all horizontally positioned on a first horizontal plane;
- a left tail-top propeller disposed at a rear end of the VTOL aircraft, vertically positioned higher than the first horizontal plane;
- a right tail-top propeller disposed at the rear end of the VTOL aircraft, vertically positioned higher than the first horizontal plane;
- and
- wherein a radius of the left and right tail-top propellers is the same as a radius of each of the at least two lifting propellers.
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A VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) aircraft comprising:
- a body;
- a left main wing and a right main wing coupled to the body;
- a left secondary wing and a right secondary wing coupled to the body;
- a left linear support connecting the left main wing to the left secondary wing;
- a right linear support connecting the right main wing to the right secondary wing, wherein the left linear support is parallel to the right linear support;
- at least two lifting propellers disposed on each of the left and right linear supports;
- a left vertical stabilizer disposed on a rear end of the left linear support, wherein the left vertical stabilizer has a bottom portion that extends downwardly and is lower than a lowest point of the body;
- and
- a landing gear disposed on a bottom end of the bottom portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.