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US 12,103,674 B2Granted
Short takeoff and landing vehicle with forward swept wings
AssigneeKitty Hawk Corporation
InventorsPranay Sinha, Damon Vander Lind
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Abstract
A vehicle includes a tilt rotor that is aft of a fixed wing and that is attached to the fixed wing via a pylon. A flight computer configured to instruct the tilt rotor to produce a maximum downward angle including by updating an actuator authority database associated with the flight computer to reflect the maximum downward angle, and generating a rotor control signal for the tilt rotor using the updated actuator authority database that reflects the maximum downward angle, wherein the maximum downward angle is adjustable.
Claims16
A vehicle, comprising:
- a tilt rotor that is aft of a fixed wing and that is attached to the fixed wing via a pylon;
- and
- a flight computer configured to instruct the tilt rotor to produce a maximum downward angle including by:
- updating an actuator authority database associated with the flight computer to reflect the maximum downward angle;
- and
- generating a rotor control signal for the tilt rotor using the updated actuator authority database that reflects the maximum downward angle, wherein the maximum downward angle is adjustable.
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A method, comprising:
- providing a tilt rotor that is aft of a fixed wing and that is attached to the fixed wing via a pylon;
- and
- providing a flight computer, wherein the flight computer is configured to instruct the tilt rotor to produce a maximum downward angle including by:
- updating an actuator authority database associated with the flight computer to reflect the maximum downward angle;
- and
- generating a rotor control signal for the tilt rotor using the updated actuator authority database that reflects the maximum downward angle, wherein the maximum downward angle is adjustable.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.