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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2018
Filed:
May. 10, 2016
Applicant:
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Stratford, CT (US);
Inventor:
Peter James Waltner, Royal Palm Beach, FL (US);
Assignee:
SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION, Stratford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 27/82 (2006.01); B64C 3/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 3/42 (2013.01); B64C 27/82 (2013.01); B64C 2027/8218 (2013.01);
Abstract
An aircraft is provided and includes an airframe having an upper section and a tail section, a main rotor assembly operably disposed at the upper section and one or more tail rotor assemblies operably disposed at the tail section. The one or more tail rotor assemblies respectively include one or more articulated propellers with thrust vectoring capability that are each independently rotatable about a respective variable rotational axis.