Aerovironment, Inc.

William Martin Parks

Bart Dean Hibbs

Christopher Eugene Fisher

Jason Sidharthadev Mukherjee

Omourtag Alexandrov Velev

Phillip T Tokumaru

David Wayne Ganzer

Joseph Frederick King

Dana J Taylor

James Gallagher Daley

Greg T Kendall

Adam L Peltz

Rik D Meininger

Mark Shipley

Laird Owens

Wyatt Sadler

A flight control apparatus for fixed-wing aircraft includes a first port wing and first starboard wing, a first port swash plate coupled between a first port rotor and first port electric motor, the first port electric motor coupled to the first port wing, and a first starboard swash plate coupled between a first starboard rotor and first starboard electric motor, the first starboard electric motor coupled to the first starboard wing.

Vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) air vehicle

A closed loop energy storage system configured with a hydrogen tank, an oxygen tank, a fuel cell stack and an electrolyzer. A heat exchanger freeze-dries the hydrogen and oxygen prior to their storage in their respective tanks. The heat exchanger also uses excess fuel cell heat to preheat streams of hydrogen and oxygen coming from the tanks. Phase separators serve both to separate water from hydrogen and oxygen, and to store the water. A thermal management system encloses all the system components except the tanks. An airfoil-shaped shell covers the system, and the larger of the two tanks extends substantially across the shell at its point of greatest camber thickness. The tanks are composed of polymer liners integral with composite shells.

Energy storage system

Sun powered aircraft

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Simi Valley, CA, United States of America

William Martin Parks