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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2018
Applicant:
Elroy Air, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventors:
Terik Weekes, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sean Belardo, San Francisco, CA (US);
Clint Cope, San Francisco, CA (US);
Colin Owen, San Francisco, CA (US);
David Merrill, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
ELROY AIR, INC., South San Francisco, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 27/26 (2006.01); B64C 27/08 (2006.01); B64C 29/00 (2006.01); B64D 9/00 (2006.01); B64C 39/02 (2006.01); B64C 39/08 (2006.01); B64C 39/12 (2006.01); B64C 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 27/26 (2013.01); B64C 27/08 (2013.01); B64C 29/0025 (2013.01); B64C 39/024 (2013.01); B64C 39/08 (2013.01); B64C 39/12 (2013.01); B64D 9/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A compound aircraft embodies an array of rotors for vertical flight positioned on support booms and wing elements for cruise flight coupled to a central fuselage housing avionics and a pusher propeller for forward propulsion. The aircraft accommodates a cargo-carrying container with mating of the surfaces between container and fuselage and latching mechanisms for attaching and detaching the container and vehicle.