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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2015
Applicant:
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Stratford, CT (US);
Inventors:
Mark W. Scott, Bethany, CT (US);
Colin Kemater Bunting, Guilford, CT (US);
Assignee:
SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION, Stratford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 29/00 (2006.01); B64C 29/02 (2006.01); B64C 25/04 (2006.01); B64D 31/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 29/02 (2013.01); B64C 25/04 (2013.01); B64D 31/06 (2013.01); B64C 2201/028 (2013.01); B64C 2201/048 (2013.01); B64C 2201/088 (2013.01);
Abstract
A flying wing vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft includes an empennageless-fuselage from which foldable wings extend outwardly, an empennageless-nacelle supported on each of the wings and a rigid rotor propeller disposed on each empennageless-nacelle, each of the propellers being drivable to rotate about only a single rotational axis defined along a longitudinal axis of the corresponding empennageless-nacelle and being fully cyclically controllable.