Patent ID: 9541924
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: B64C,B64D,G05D,G08G,Y02T

Claim:
1. A method for distributed airborne transportation, comprising: 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 as the determined flight direction; selecting, for joining, the at least one other airborne vehicle based on 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.