I think there will be a large market for plane-like drones with very malleable wings for exactly the reason you state. The cost (in terms of both price and str

I think there will be a large market for plane-like drones with very malleable wings for exactly the reason you state. The cost (in terms of both price and structural integrity) of gratuitously dynamic wings (think turning the whole wing 45 degrees to horizontal, bending the wing to 90 degrees at it's half way point) are much smaller for small aircraft. Such gratuitously dynamic wings give more degrees of freedom for automated piloting software to work with when it comes to optimizing near vertical take-off and landing when compared to a fixed wing aircraft, while retaining fixed wing efficiency advantages during elevated flight.