Patent ID: 7237750

Claim:
A modular hand-launchable unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) comprising: a plurality of modules including a fuselage, a nose cone, a tail section and two wing pieces, said modules being readily assembled to construct said UAV and being readily disassembled for compact transport; a front side and a rear side of said fuselage having a forwardly-facing fuselage through-hole and a rearwardly-facing fuselage through-hole, respectively; said nose cone having a rearwardly-facing nose cone through-hole for coupling to said forwardly-facing fuselage through-hole; said tail section having a forwardly-facing tail section through-hole for coupling to said rearwardly-facing fuselage through-hole; each of said two wing pieces having a fuselage-mounting surface for coupling to a wing-mounting surface on a respective side of said fuselage; each of said through-holes being defined and reinforced with a bulkhead mounted in a respective one of said through-holes, said bulkhead fitting cooperatively with a mating bulkhead on a corresponding one of said fuselage, nose cone and tail section modules.