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

Claim 0:
1. 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,
wherein the outer fuselage shell or the outer wing shells comprise one or more formed-metal sheets,
wherein the outer fuselage shell comprises a single fuselage formed-metal sheet with first and second portions separated along a first folded seam along which the single fuselage formed-metal sheet is folded and a mated seam along which the first and second portions of the single fuselage formed-metal sheet are mated to each other.