Embodiments of the present invention provide an alternative distributed airborne transportation system. In some embodiments, a method for distributed airborne transportation includes: providing an airborne vehicle with a wing and a wing span, having capacity to carry one or more of passengers or cargo; landing of the airborne vehicle near one or more of passengers or cargo and loading at least one of passengers or cargo; taking-off and determining a flight direction for the airborne vehicle; locating at least one other airborne vehicle, which has substantially the same flight direction; and joining at least one other airborne vehicle in flight formation and forming a fleet, in which airborne vehicles fly with the same speed and direction and in which adjacent airborne vehicles are separated by distance of less than 100 wing spans.
METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTED AIRBORNE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
VERFAHREN UND VORRICHTUNG FÜR DEN DEZENTRALEN LUFTTRANSPORT
PROCÉDÉ ET DISPOSITIF POUR LE TRANSPORT AÉRIEN DÉCENTRALISÉ
2020-05-27
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
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