Kitty Hawk Corporation

Wisk Aero LLC

A{circumflex Over ( )}3 by Airbus LLC

Zachary Thomas Lovering

Cody Patrick Leuck

Ian Fernandez

Bernard F Ahyow

Arne Stoschek

Alexander Dean Naiman

Cedric Cocaud

A monitoring system for an aircraft has sensors that are used to sense the presence of objects around the aircraft for collision avoidance, navigation, or other purposes. At least one of the sensors may be configured to sense objects around the aircraft and provide data indicative of the sensed objects. The monitoring system may use information from the sensor and information about the aircraft to determine an escape envelope including possible routes that the aircraft can follow to avoid colliding with the object. The monitoring system may select an escape path based on the escape envelope and control the aircraft to follow the escape path to avoid collision with one or more objects.

Systems and methods for sensing and avoiding external objects for aircraft

A corrugated lift fan rotor is disclosed. In various embodiments, a rotor includes an upper skin, a lower skin, and an at least partly corrugated core encased between the upper skin and the lower skin. In some embodiments, the core comprises a composite material, such as carbon fiber reinforced polymer composite material, and includes an upper cap portion, a lower cap portion, and a web portion extending between the upper and lower cap portions.

Corrugated lift fan rotor

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

Zachary Thomas Lovering