Helicopter Drone Patent Drawing 1962

by Carlos Diaz

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Helicopter Drone Patent Drawing 1962

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Carlos Diaz

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Digital Art - Digital Art

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Helicopter Drone Patent Drawing 1962 by Carlos Diaz

The quadcopter drone, found today buzzing over parks and bothering airplanes, was first patented back in 1962. Edward G. Vanderlip, an engineer for Piasecki Aircraft Corporation, first designed a way to allow a helicopter's instruments to continue functioning in the event of a power failure.

Vanderlip then had the idea to incorporate pilot-friendly flight systems into a small, remotely-operated rotary aircraft. His patent for an "omni-directional, vertical-lift, helicopter drone" outlines a UAV designed to be "extremely simple" to fly. The drone design has "four lift rotors arranged in pairs at opposite ends" so that the vertical axis of tilt is always perpendicular to the ground. This allows the aircraft to tilt its rotors and fly in any direction while maintaining a level platform.

As soon as flight controls and other electronic systems, such as cameras and GPS navigation, caught up with Vanderlip's idea, the quadcopter drone took to the skies in swarms.

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November 16th, 2018

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