Patent ID: 6840480

Claim:
A powered, miniature, unmanned aircraft, comprising: a) an elongated airframe including a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine, a fuselage having an upper surface and a lower surface comprising a stepped, cutaway region along a longitudinal portion thereof, said stepped, cutaway region of said lower surface being adapted to receive an interchangeable data module; b) a unitary, fixed wing removably attachable to said upper surface of said fuselage at a substantially right angle thereto; c) a data module removably attachable to said fuselage at said stepped, cutaway region, a front end of said data module substantially abutting said fuselage at said step, a lower surface of said data module thereby forming an aerodynamically contiguous extension of a portion of said lower surface of said fuselage located forward of said step when said data module is attached to said fuselage; d) at least one control surface disposed on at least one of said wing and said fuselage, each of said at least one control surface comprising a servomechanism operably connected thereto; e) a remotely controlled guidance system having a radio frequency receiver carried aboard said airframe and operatively connected to at least said at least one control surface by means of said associated servomechanism associated therewith; said powered, miniature, unmanned aircraft weighing no more than fifty-five pounds with said data module attached thereto.