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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2023
Beta Air, Llc, South Burlington, VT (US);
Timothy Gerard Richter, South Burlington, VT (US);
Joshua E. Auerbach, Waterbury Center, VT (US);
Andrew Giroux, South Burlington, VT (US);
Herman Wiegman, South Burlington, VT (US);
BETA AIR LLC, South Burlington, VT (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure is generally directed to a flight control system and method of flight control for an electric aircraft. The system includes a pilot input communicatively connected to an electric aircraft, wherein the pilot input is configured to receive an input datum, and plurality of flight components communicatively connected to the electric aircraft, wherein the plurality of flight components includes a plurality of control surfaces. The system also includes a flight controller, wherein the flight controller is configured to determine a phase of flight, determine a command datum to control a position of the plurality of control surfaces as a function of the input datum, and command, when the phase of flight is determined to be hover, the plurality of control surfaces using the command datum.