Airbus VTOL Patent

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Airbus has filed a patent for a plane that would take off vertically using use four rotors, then stow the rotors for forward flight powered by a standard propeller configuration, then land vertically using the rotors again. The rotors would each have an electric motor, which in turn is powered by batteries and a generator that’s connected to an internal combustion engine. That engine would power the forward facing propeller when the aircraft transitions to...

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