Patent ID: 11964782
Assignee: WING AVIATION LLC
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 12:
13. An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) comprising:
a fuselage having an outer fuselage shell that is a first mechanical support structure for an airframe of the UAV;
a pair of wings attached to the fuselage and shaped to provide aerodynamic lift, the wings having outer wing shells that are second mechanical support structures for the airframe; and
a propulsion system mounted to the wings to provide propulsion to the UAV,
a pair of rotor booms each mounted to, and extending fore and aft of, a corresponding one of the wings, the rotor booms each providing a plurality of vertical lift rotor mounts for the propulsion system,
wherein the rotor booms have outer boom shells each shaped from a single formed-metal sheet that is thinner at distal end sections than a middle section of each of the rotor booms,
wherein the UAV comprises a vertical takeoff and land (VTOL) aircraft.