US 11,718,398 B2
Blown flying wing CTOL/VTOL tailsitter aircraft
Carl Dietrich, Petaluma, CA (US); Brian Lozano, Sebastopol, CA (US); Jeff Myjak, Chelsea, MA (US); and Jennifer Sperry, Petaluma, CA (US)
Assigned to JUMP AERO INCORPORATED, Petaluma, CA (US)
Filed by Jump Aero Incorporated, Petaluma, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 26, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/214,734.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/000,276, filed on Mar. 26, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0347473 A1, Nov. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. B64C 29/02 (2006.01); B64D 45/06 (2006.01); B64C 13/50 (2006.01); B64D 45/00 (2006.01)
CPC B64C 29/02 (2013.01) [B64C 13/503 (2013.01); B64D 45/06 (2013.01); B64D 2045/008 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vertical takeoff and vertical landing, flying-wing, tailsitter aircraft, the aircraft comprising:
a) conventional takeoff and/or conventional landing capability;
b) propulsor-blown control surfaces;
c) a fly-by-wire control system;
d) relaxed static pitch stability; and
e) six or more propulsors:
i. driven by electric motors;
ii. with actuator disk diameters between one third and three times the average chord length of the wing;
iii. configured to blow air over more than half of the total wing area; and
d) a fuselage-mounted propeller pitched for cruise flight.