Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.

Textron Innovations Inc.

Andrea Chavez

Daniel Bryan Robertson

Kirk Landon Groninga

John T Lloyd

Eric Stephen Olson

Ryan Thomas Ehinger

Levi Charles Hefner

Joseph J Gerardi

Monte McGlaun

Danielle Lynn Moore

Steven Kirk Spears

Brad Jeffrey Ekstrom

Joseph Gerardi

Eric Olson

An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has a fuselage, a rotor system, and a wing configured for selective positioning during flight of the UAV to a deployed position, a stowed position, and to positions between the deployed position and the stowed position. The UAV has a flexible wing skin at least partially carried by a leading arm and the leading arm is rotatable relative to the fuselage.

UAV with in-flight adjustable wings

A tail rotor drive system (TRDS) has a shaft, a housing extending around the shaft, a mount coupled to the housing via a friction assembly and a flexure, and a bearing assembly disposed between the housing and the shaft.

Friction damper with centering flexure

A system and method to detect particles in a fluid stream. The system includes a separator configured to separate particles from bubbles passing through the fluid stream and a sensor configured to detect the particles. The method includes passing the fluid stream through the separator, separating the particles from bubbles passing through the fluid stream, and detecting the presence of the particles.

Non-metallic debris monitoring system

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Colleyville, TX, United States of America

Andrea Chavez