Patent ID: 11905007
Assignee: ARCHER AVIATION, INC.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A flying wing passenger vertical take-off and landing aircraft comprising:
a flying wing comprising a passenger compartment that comprises a plurality of seats for seating a plurality of passengers in an upright forward facing posture;
at least four tiltable rotors positioned at least partially forward of a leading edge of the flying wing;
at least two non-tiltable rotors positioned at least partially rearward of a trailing edge of the flying wing, wherein a number of non-tiltable rotors of the aircraft is less than a number of tiltable rotors of the aircraft;
a first set of booms mounted to the flying wing, each boom of the first set of booms supporting one of the at least four tiltable rotors and one of the at least two non-tiltable rotors;
a second set of booms mounted in a fixed position to the flying wing inwardly of wing tips of the flying wing, each boom of the second set of booms supporting only one rotor, the one rotor being one of the at least four tiltable rotors, wherein for each boom of the second set of booms, a rear end of the boom is mounted to the flying wing such that the boom extends only forward of the flying wing and the tiltable rotor that is supported by the boom is tiltably mounted to a forward end of the boom at a tilt axis that is spaced forward of the leading edge of the flying wing so that a disc area of the tiltable rotor is entirely forward of the leading edge of the flying wing; and
a plurality of batteries stored in housings positioned along wing roots adjacent to the passenger compartment.