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US 2026/0184426 A1Published application
Vtol transport clusters
OwnerGeorge J. SYROVYinventor
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Abstract
A heavier-than-air aircraft is enabled or aided in vertical take-off by a plurality of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft attached to the heavier-than-air aircraft by tethers and flying in formation. In embodiments, the tethers comprise winches. In embodiments, the VTOL aircraft are attached individually to points on the heavier-than-air aircraft spaced both laterally and in the direction of flight.
Claims11
A load-lifting system comprising:
- a load;
- and
- a load-lifting swarm of VTOL aircraft connected to the load at multiple attachment points on the load for lifting the load, the swarm comprising multiple clusters of three or more VTOL aircraft, one of the clusters being attached to each of the attachment points.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.