The invention discloses a dual-mode unmanned aerial vehicle working method and a dual-mode unmanned aerial vehicle. The two-mode unmanned aerial vehicle is mainly composed of an unmanned aerial vehicle body, propellers, folding main wings, a folding tail wing and a shock absorbing frame. According to the dual-mode unmanned aerial vehicle working method, the dual-mode unmanned aerial vehicle can realize vertical lifting and lowering, horizontal driving flight or horizontal gliding flight, and has the characteristics that the dual-mode unmanned aerial vehicle is easy to lift and lower, is less affected by wind direction and has long flight time and long flight distance.