The Boeing Company

Insitu, Inc.

Insitu, Inc. (a Subsidiary of the Boeing Company)

Jeffrey David Lydecker

Rolf Rysdyk

Matthew David Grubb

Wayne David Goodrich

Douglas Allyn Miller

Daniel Robert Cirulnick

Methods and apparatus to recover rotorcraft are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes a rotor of a vehicle, a rotatable hub to support the rotor, and a rotor hook disposed on the rotor. The rotor hook has a groove to receive a recovery line. The rotor is to contact the recovery line when the vehicle is flown toward the recovery line.

Methods and apparatus to recover rotorcraft

An aircraft has a fuselage, a wing assembly coupleable to the fuselage, and an empennage including a pair of tail booms configured to be removably coupled to the wing assembly. The wing assembly includes a pair of boom interfaces located on laterally opposite sides of the fuselage. Each tail boom has a boom forward end configured to be mechanically attached to one of the boom interfaces using an externally-accessible mechanical fastener.

Unmanned aerial vehicle

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Hood River, OR, United States of America

Jeffrey David Lydecker