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

Claim 10:
11. 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 and the outer wing shells are separated into upper and lower shell sections, wherein the upper shell sections of the fuselage and the wings comprise a first unitary and contiguous formed-metal sheet and the lower shell sections of the fuselage and the wings comprise a second unitary and contiguous formed-metal sheet that are mated together to form the airframe of the UAV.