Payload dropping mechanism for unmanned aerial vehicle

A method for dropping a first load and a second load from an unmanned aerial vehicle, wherein a projection of a first load is inserted into a first passage opening in a structural component of the aerial vehicle, in which method a projection of a second load is inserted into a second passage opening in a structural component of the aerial vehicle, in which method a first locking element, in the connected state, engages into an opening of the first load, in which method a second locking element, in the connected state, engages into an opening of the second load, and in which method an actuation element is set in motion in order to release the first locking element from the first load, and in which method, at a later point in time, the same actuation element is set in motion in order to release the second locking element from the second load.

An unmanned aerial vehicle having a dropping device for a first load and a second load, the dropping device comprising an actuation element which performs a first rotational movement to effect drop of the first load and which performs a second rotational movement to effect drop of the second load, the aerial vehicle having a shaped passage opening in a structural component, through which passage opening a shaped projection of the load can be slip fit, and the dropping device comprising a locking element which, in a connected state, engages into an opening of the load to prevent dropping of the load.