Volocopter Gmbh

Krishna Pal Rajput

Sebastian Mores

Martin Stobbe

A VTOL aircraft () having a fuselage () for transporting passengers and/or load, front and rear wings () attached to the fuselage, a right connecting beam () and a left connecting beam (), which connecting beams structurally connect the front wing and the rear wing, and which connecting beams are spaced apart from the fuselage, and at least two lifting units (M-M) on each one of the connecting beams. The lifting units each include at least one propeller () and at least one motor () driving the propeller, preferably an electric motor, and are arranged with their respective propeller axis in an essentially vertical orientation. The front wing, at least in portions thereof, has a sweep angle γ between γ=45° and γ=135°, and the rear wing, at least in portions thereof, has a forward sweep with sweep angle β≥30°.

VTOL aircraft with electric propulsion

A method of controlling a multi-rotor aircraft () including at least five, preferably at least six, lifting rotors (; R-R), each having a first rotation axis which is essentially parallel to a yaw axis (z) of the aircraft (), and at least one forward propulsion device (), preferably two forward propulsion devices (P, P), the at least one forward propulsion device having at least two rotors (P_R, P_R, P_R, P_R) that are arranged coaxially with a second rotation axis which is essentially parallel to a roll axis (x) of the aircraft. The at least one or each of the forward propulsion devices (, P, P) being arranged at a respective distance (+y, &#x2212;y) from said roll axis (x). The method further includes: using at least one of the rotors of the at least one forward propulsion device to control the aircraft's moment about the yaw and/or roll axes independently from each other.

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Munich, Germany

Krishna Pal Rajput