Example methods and apparatus to deploy and recover a fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicle (block 1100) via a non-fixed wing aircraft (104) are described herein. An example method includes tracking a location of a non-fixed wing aircraft in flight (block 1106), tracking a location of a fixed wing aircraft in flight (block 1106), positioning the non-fixed wing aircraft (104) relative to the fixed wing aircraft (102) based on the locations of the non-fixed wing aircraft (104) and the fixed wing aircraft (102) and coupling, via a gripper (112), the fixed wing aircraft (102) to the non-fixed wing aircraft (104) in mid-flight at a recovery location.
