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US 12,600,468 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:
- four motors, wherein two of the four motors are angled away from each other within a first plane generally perpendicular to a plane of a wing, and wherein the other two of the four motors are angled away from each other within a second plane generally perpendicular to the plane of the wing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.