The airplanes belonging to the Boeing 747-400 Formation Flight concept take-off from different runways and possibly even from different airports but on their way to a common destination they join each other... The separate take-off is necessary because of safety and comfort considerations... The connection is created by double steel ropes that find the nose of following airplanes automatically and enable a flexible connection... After 3 or 5 Boeing 747-400 airliners take on a V-shaped formation - they start to save fuel... Reaching the destination airport(s) the V-formation dissolves and the Boeing 747-400 airliners land separately...
The Boeing 747-400 Formation Flight concept means 1 airplane towing 2 or 4 other airplanes - practically over 2,000 passengers can fly by using the engines of only 1 towing aircraft... Thank to the refined physics there are no restrictions in cruising speed or altitude... Of course, all airplanes keep their capability of self-contained flying, too during the whole formation flight... (In the pictures below: Canada geese imitating the Boeing 747-400 Formation Flight...)
Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team
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