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US 12,358,634 B2Granted
Assembly for dual engine vertical take off and landing collapsible fixed wing aircraft
AssigneeAnduril Industries, Inc.
InventorsDane Michael Chantrill, Gregory Joseph Toland
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Abstract
The present application discloses a method of assembling or disassembling an aircraft. The assembly method includes a mounting a first engine nacelle to a first wing, mounting a second engine nacelle to a second wing, causing the first wing to be extended relative to a center wing, and causing the second wing to be extended relative to the center wing.
Claims20
A method of assembling an aircraft, comprising:
- mounting a first engine nacelle to a first wing;
- mounting a second engine nacelle to a second wing;
- causing the first wing to be extended relative to a center wing or to a fuselage mount;
- causing the second wing to be extended relative to the center wing or to the fuselage mount;
- causing a first landing module coupled to the first engine nacelle to be configured in an extended state when the first wing is extended relative to the center wing or to the fuselage mount;
- and
- causing a second landing module coupled to the second engine nacelle to be configured in an extended state when the second wing is extended relative to the center wing or to the fuselage mount.
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A method of assembling an aircraft, comprising:
- mounting a first engine nacelle to a first wing;
- mounting a second engine nacelle to a second wing;
- causing the first wing to be extended relative to a center wing or to a fuselage mount;
- causing the second wing to be extended relative to the center wing or to the fuselage mount;
- causing a fuselage to be moved from a disassembled state to a fuselage assembly state;
- and
- mounting the fuselage to the center wing or to the fuselage mount when the fuselage is in the fuselage assembly state;
- wherein:
- causing the fuselage to be moved from the disassembled state to the fuselage assembly state includes actuating a center support member of a cart that carries the aircraft in the disassembled state;
- the fuselage is mounted to the center support member;
- and
- actuating the center support member moves the fuselage relative to the center wing or the fuselage mount.
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A method of assembling an aircraft, comprising:
- mounting a first engine nacelle to a first wing;
- mounting a second engine nacelle to a second wing;
- causing the first wing to be extended relative to a center wing or to a fuselage mount;
- causing the second wing to be extended relative to the center wing or to the fuselage mount;
- and
- installing a set of proprotor blades to a first proprotor of the first engine nacelle and a second proprotor of the second engine nacelle,
- wherein installing a first proprotor blade to the first proprotor comprises:
- (i) pushing the first proprotor blade towards a first proprotor hub of the first proprotor until the first proprotor hub is inserted into a cavity defined by the first proprotor blade;
- (ii) twisting the first proprotor blade relative to the first proprotor hub;
- and
- (iii) releasing the first proprotor blade.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.