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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2017
Sunlight Photonics Inc., Edison, NJ (US);
Sergey V. Frolov, New Providence, NJ (US);
John Peter Moussouris, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael Cyrus, Castle Rock, CO (US);
SUNLIGHT PHOTONICS INC., Edison, NJ (US);
Abstract
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.