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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2021
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Kirk A. Vining, Renton, WA (US);
Alvin L. Sipe, Kenmore, WA (US);
Dragos D. Margineantu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Tristan C. Flanzer, Seattle, WA (US);
The Boeing Company, Arlington, VA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided for optimizing a flight of an aircraft with at least one segment of formation flight. The method includes accessing flight plans for flights of a fleet, and transforming the flight plans into values of a set of features that describe segments of the flights. The values are applied to a machine learning model trained to predict the segment(s) during which the aircraft is within a region that includes at least one second aircraft of the fleet that is thereby capable of serving as a leading aircraft in the segment(s) of formation flight in which the aircraft is a trailing aircraft. A notification is sent to the aircraft of the segment(s) and the second aircraft capable of serving as the leading aircraft. And a second notification is sent to the second aircraft of the segment(s) and the aircraft capable of serving as the trailing aircraft.