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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2020
Beta Air, Llc, South Burlington, VT (US);
Cody Spiegel, Charlotte, VT (US);
Dale Williams, Winooski, VT (US);
BETA AIR, LLC, South Burlington, VT (US);
Abstract
A combined hover and forward thrust control assembly for a dual-mode aircraft includes a support structure attached to an aircraft frame of an aircraft having at least a vertical thrust propulsor and at least a forward thrust propulsor a throttle lever rotatably mounted to the support structure, wherein rotating the throttle lever in a first direction increases power to at least a vertical thrust propulsor and rotating the throttle lever in a second direction decreases power to at least a vertical thrust propulsor and a linear thrust control mounted on the throttle lever, wherein movement of the linear thrust control in a first direction increases forward thrust of at least a forward thrust propulsor, and movement of the linear thrust control in a second direction decreases forward thrust of the forward thrust propulsor.