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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2019
Applicant:
Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., Fort Worth, TX (US);
Inventors:
Carlos Alexander Fenny, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Nicholas Brodeur, Beaconsfield, CA;
Rohn Lee Olson, Hurst, TX (US);
Kevin Morris, Hawesbury, CA;
Assignee:
Textron Innovations Inc., Providence, RI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 29/00 (2006.01); B64C 39/06 (2006.01); B64C 3/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 29/0033 (2013.01); B64C 3/10 (2013.01); B64C 39/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
An aircraft that is convertible between a helicopter mode and an airplane mode. The aircraft includes a fuselage with a longitudinal axis and a vertical axis and distributed propulsion array that surrounds the vertical axis when the aircraft is operating the helicopter mode and surrounds the longitudinal axis when the aircraft is operating in the airplane mode.