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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2012
Latitude Engineering, Llc, Tucson, AZ (US);
Charles Justin Armer, Tucson, AZ (US);
Bayani R. Birkinbine, Tucson, AZ (US);
Thomas J. Cleary, St. Charles, MO (US);
Sean C. Culbertson, Tucson, AZ (US);
Jason M. Douglas, Tucson, AZ (US);
Carlos V. Murphy, Tucson, AZ (US);
Manu Singh, Tucson, AZ (US);
Latitude Engineering, LLC, Tucson, AZ (US);
Abstract
A vertical take-off and landing aircraft includes a fixed wing airframe having opposed left and right wings extending from left and right sides, respectively, of a fuselage having opposed leading and trailing extremities and an empennage located behind the trailing extremity. Four fixed, open and horizontal, vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) thrust rotors are mounted to the airframe in a quadrotor pattern for providing vertical lift to the aircraft, and a vertical, forward thrust rotor is mounted to the trailing extremity of the fuselage between the trailing extremity of the fuselage and the empennage for providing forward thrust to the aircraft. The four VTOL thrust rotors are coplanar being and operating in a common plane that is parallel relative to, and being level with, top surfaces of the left and right wings in and around a region of each of the four VTOL thrust rotors.