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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2017
Applicant:
Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., Fort Worth, TX (US);
Inventors:
Levi Charles Hefner, Arlington, TX (US);
Danielle Lynn Moore, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Andrea Chavez, Colleyville, TX (US);
Kirk Landon Groninga, Keller, TX (US);
John Lloyd, Arlington, TX (US);
Daniel Bryan Robertson, Southlake, TX (US);
Assignee:
Textron Innovations Inc., Providence, RI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 39/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 39/024 (2013.01); B64C 2201/102 (2013.01); B64C 2201/108 (2013.01);
Abstract
An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has a fuselage, a rotor system, and a wing configured for selective positioning during flight of the UAV to a deployed position, a stowed position, and to positions between the deployed position and the stowed position. The UAV has a flexible wing skin at least partially carried by a leading arm and the leading arm is rotatable relative to the fuselage.