Patent ID: 11919629
Assignee: VERDEGO AERO, INC.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 19:
20. A vertical takeoff and landing aircraft comprising:
a fuselage;
a passenger compartment within the fuselage;
a front propeller located ahead of a center of gravity of the vertical takeoff and landing aircraft; and
an aft propeller located behind the center of gravity; wherein:
the front propeller is configured to rotate around a front thrust vectoring axis;
the aft propeller is configured to rotate around an aft thrust vectoring axis;
a front thrust offset distance is defined between a rotational plane of the front propeller and the front thrust vectoring axis, wherein the front thrust offset distance is greater than a first vertical distance from the front thrust vectoring axis to a top of the passenger compartment;
an aft thrust offset distance is defined between a rotational plane of the aft propeller and the aft thrust vectoring axis, wherein the aft thrust offset distance is greater than a second vertical distance from the aft thrust vectoring axis to a bottom of the passenger compartment
while the front propeller rotates around the front thrust vectoring axis between positions associated with a horizontal flight mode and a vertical flight mode, the rotational plane of the front propeller does not intersect with the passenger compartment; and
while the aft propeller rotates around the aft thrust vectoring axis between the positions associated with the horizontal flight mode and the vertical flight mode, the rotational plane of the aft propeller does not intersect with the passenger compartment.