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US 11,851,173 B2Granted
Vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) winged air vehicle with complementary angled rotors
AssigneeAeroVironment, Inc.
InventorsHenry Thome Won, Quentin Lindsey
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Abstract
Systems, devices, and methods for an aircraft having a fuselage; a wing extending from both sides of the fuselage; a first pair of motors disposed at a first end of the wing; and a second pair of motors disposed at a second end of the wing; where each motor is angled to provide a component of thrust by a propeller attached thereto that for a desired aircraft movement applies a resulting torque additive to the resulting torque created by rotating the propellers.
Claims20
A vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft comprising:
- a top port motor, a bottom port motor, a top starboard motor, and a bottom starboard motor, wherein the top and bottom starboard motors are angled away from each other within a first plane generally perpendicular to a plane of a wing, and wherein the top and bottom port motors are angled away from each other within a second plane generally perpendicular to the plane of the wing;
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- a processor having addressable memory, the processor configured to:
- control thrust to each of the top port motor, the bottom port motor, the top starboard motor, and the bottom starboard motor.
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