Textron Innovations Inc.

Carey Andrew Cross

William Anthony Amante

Kip Gregory Campbell

Steve Michael Loveland

Bradley Paul Regnier

Robert W Roe

Steven R Schafer

Brian John Cox

Mathew Chapdelaine

Steve R Schafer

Bradley Paul Reigner

One embodiment is an apparatus for inhibiting accidental contact by a human with a tail rotor connected to an empennage of an aircraft. The apparatus includes an inverted V-tail connected to an empennage of the aircraft forward of the tail rotor, the inverted V-tail stabilizer comprising a first V-tail stabilizer on a side of the empennage to which the tail rotor is connected and a second V-tail stabilizer on a side of the empennage opposite the side of the empennage to which the tail rotor is connected; and a shroud bar having a first end connected to an outboard end of the first V-tail stabilizer and a second end opposite the first end connected to the empennage aft of the tail rotor, wherein a horizontal distance from the shroud bar to the tail rotor is greater than a length of an arm of the human.

Protective shroud for aircraft tail rotor

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Fort Worth, TX, United States of America

Carey Andrew Cross