Payload and aerial transport system

Abstract

The present invention relates to a payload comprising a body having two or more coupling means mounted on the same side of the body of the payload such as to be capable of entering into releasable engagement with the bodies of unmanned aerial vehicles such that the propellers of said unmanned aerial vehicles can be disposed in parallel planes on different sides of the body of the payload or at a set angular offset about the perimeter of the body of the payload. The present invention further relates to a transport system comprising two or more unmanned aerial vehicles and the proposed embodiment of a payload.

Description

PAYLOAD AND AIR TRANSPORT SYSTEM COMPRISING SAME FIELD OF THE INVENTIONThe present invention relates to transport equipment, in particular to vehicles capable of flying or performing movement through the air to deliver a user or cargo to a target location, specifically to a payload having an improved design and air transport system comprising said payload and unmanned aircraft apparatuses configured to dock to said payload. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONTo date, there have been developed a plurality of various designs of a payload for transporting passengers and / or cargo of various types, as well as a plurality of various automated or semi-automated air transport systems based on the use of unmanned aircraft apparatuses (UAAs) configured to detachably dock to a payload for moving same through the air to a target location. However, despite the fact that modern designs of a payload and modern air transport systems intended for moving said payload through the air using unmanned aircraft apparatuses dockable to the housing of the payload make it possible to deliver or move a user or cargo through the air to a target location relatively quickly, they have a significant drawback of insufficient stability of the housing of the payload in airspace while docking of unmanned aircraft apparatuses therewith or while replacement of unmanned aircraft apparatuses docked to the housing of the payload.Accordingly, in view of at least the above disadvantage of the state-of-the-art designs of a payload and of air transport systems based on the use of unmanned aircraft apparatuses for transporting such payload through the air, there is an urgent need for the development of an improved design of a payload and an improved air transport system.In particular, US patent application publication No. 2023294849 (US 2023294849), published on September 21, 2023, discloses a payload comprising a housing provided with one or more docking means mounted on one and the same side of the housing of the payload so as to enter into detachable interaction with the housings of unmanned aircraft apparatuses, and discloses an air transport system comprising the payload according to US 2023294849 and an unmanned aircraft apparatus docked to the housing of the payload.Of note, further, the payload and the air transport system disclosed in US 2023294849 do not overcome the above disadvantage of insufficient stability of the housing of the payload in airspace while docking of unmanned aircraft apparatuses to the housing of the payload.Thus, there is an obvious need for further improvement of prior-art designs of a payload and of air transport systems comprising such payload, in particular for improving the stability of the housing of the payload in airspace while docking of unmanned aircraft apparatuses to the housing of the payload.Accordingly, the main technical problem solved by the present invention is to provide a design of a payload and to provide an air transport system which would enable movement of such payload through the air using unmanned aircraft apparatuses and which would at least partially overcome the above prior-art drawback of insufficient stability of the housing of the payload in airspace while docking of unmanned aircraft apparatuses to the housing of the payload.A further technical problem solved by the present invention is to expand the range of vehicles capable of transporting or delivering a user / cargo through the air to a target location. SUMMARYThe main object of the present invention is to create a payload and air transport system that solve each at least the above technical problem of the prior art, as well as to expand the range of vehicles for transporting cargo / passengers through the air.Another object of the present invention is to create an alternative design of a payload and alternative air transport system comprising such payload with respect to the respective technical solutions known in the prior art.Each of the tasks at hand is solved in the first aspect of the present invention due to the fact that the subject payload comprising: (i) a housing provided with two or more docking means mounted on one and the same side of the housing of the payload so as to enter into detachable interaction with the housings of unmanned aircraft apparatuses, as a result of the entry of the docking means of the housing of the payload into detachable interaction with the housings of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses, there is enabled the arrangement of the air propulsion units of said unmanned aircraft apparatuses in parallel planes on distinct sides of the housing or with a predetermined angular offset around the perimeter of the housing of the payload.Furthermore, each of the tasks at hand is solved in the second aspect of the present invention due to the fact that in the subject air transport system comprising: (i) a payload whose housing is provided with two or more docking means; and (ii) two or more unmanned aircraft apparatuses, the housing of each of which is provided with two or more air propulsion units and is configured to enter into detachable interaction with at least one of said docking means of the payload, as a result of the entry of the housings of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses into detachable interaction with the respective docking means of the housing of the payload, there is enabled the arrangement of the air propulsion units of said unmanned aircraft apparatuses in parallel planes on distinct sides of the housing or with a predetermined angular offset around the perimeter of the housing of the payload.The above first and second aspects of the present invention provide each a technical result of increased versatility of the payload. It should be noted that the increased versatility of the payload is due to enabled arrangement of the air propulsion units of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses, whose housings have been brought into detachable interaction with the docking means of the housing of the payload, in parallel planes on distinct sides of the housing or with a predetermined angular offset around the perimeter of the housing of the payload. Furthermore, the above first and second aspects of the present invention provide each yet another additional technical result of increased safety of flight of the payload. Of note, the increased safety of flight of the payload is further due to the possibility of arranging the air propulsion units of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses in parallel planes on distinct sides of the housing or with a predetermined angular offset around the perimeter of the housing of the payload. Of note, the arrangement of the air propulsion units of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses brought into detachable interaction with the docking means of the housing of the payload in parallel planes on distinct sides of the housing or with a predetermined angular offset around the perimeter of the housing of the payload makes it possible to better stabilize the housing of the payload in the air while performing said process of detachable interaction with the housing of the payload, in particular thanks to minimizing the mutual influence of air flows generated by the air propulsion units of said unmanned aircraft apparatuses.Additional advantages of the claimed group of inventions and individual inventions in said group, including particular embodiments thereof described herein or characterized in dependent claims, will be appreciated by one skilled from the following detailed description of the present invention and the accompanying drawings, with reference to which various embodiments of the present invention are described in more detail below.Furthermore, the above first and second aspects of the present invention provide each yet another additional technical result of expansion of the range of vehicles capable of moving or delivering the user / cargo through the air to a target location. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGSThe accompanying drawings which are included to provide further understanding of the principles of the present invention constitute a part hereof and are incorporated herein to illustrate the below embodiments and aspects of the present invention. The accompanying drawings, together with the description below, serve to explain the principles of the present invention. In the drawings:Fig. 1 shows one of the illustrative embodiments of the air transport system according to the present invention in a state in which both unmanned aircraft apparatuses have approached the payload for performing detachable docking to said payload;Fig. 2 shows the air transport system according to the present invention in a state in which one of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses is detachably docked to the payload, and the other unmanned aircraft apparatus is present in a state of readiness for detachable docking to said payload; andFig. 3 shows the air transport system according to the present invention in a state in which both unmanned aircraft apparatuses are detachably docked to the payload. DETAILED DESCRIPTION Hereinafter, some exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings; however, it should be understood that the description below does not define or limit the scope of the present invention.In the following description, a detailed description of known functions and designs will be omitted as this unimportant information may obscure the concept of the present invention.It is to be understood that in the following description the terms such as "first", "second", "upper", "lower", "lateral", "front", "rear", and the like are used solely for convenience, and they should not be interpreted as limiting terms. In particular, as used in the present invention, unless explicitly stated otherwise in the description herein, the terms "first", "second", "third" or the like are used to distinguish elements, components, parts, assemblies, modules, blocks, embodiments or the like, to which they pertain, from one another and not meant to describe any particular relationship therebetween. References to an item in the singular should be understood to include such items in the plural, and vice versa, unless explicitly stated otherwise or clear from the context herein.Grammatical conjunctions are intended to express any and all disjunctive and conjunctive combinations of conjoined clauses, sentences, words and the like, unless otherwise stated or clear from the context. Thus the term "or" should be understood to generally mean "and / or" and so forth.Recitation of ranges of values herein is not intended to be limiting, referring instead individually to any and all values falling within the range, unless otherwise indicated herein, and each separate value within such a range is incorporated into the description as if it was individually recited herein.Words "about," "approximately" or the like, when accompanying a numerical value, are to be construed as including any deviation as would be understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to operate satisfactorily for an intended purpose. Ranges of values and / or numeric values are provided herein as examples only, and do not constitute a limitation on the scope of the described embodiments.Any and all examples provided herein or at least a portion thereof, as well as corresponding phrases ("for example", "such as", "in particular" or the like), are used merely to facilitate understanding of the principles of the present invention and to provide for sufficient disclosure of the present invention; however, these phrases do not pose any limitations on the embodiments of the present invention, for description of which embodiments they are utilized herein, in particular they do not limit practical implementations of elements, components, parts, assemblies, modules, blocks, devices, means and / or the like utilized to disclose the principles of design, functioning (exercising) and / or operation of the present invention.Terms and definitions used in the description hereinThe term "illustrative" means a non-limiting example, instance or illustration. In a similar manner, the terms "for example" and "by way of example" used herein set off lists of one or more non-limiting examples, instances or illustrations. As used herein, circuitry is "configured" to perform a function whenever the circuitry comprises the necessary hardware and code (if any is necessary) to perform the function, regardless of whether performance of the function is blocked or forbidden (for example, by an operator-configurable setting, factory trim, etc.).As used in the present invention, the term "correspondence" and derivatives thereof (i.e. adjective, verb, adverb) does not necessarily mean exact conformity or exact equality in / to / between whatsoever in any respect but may imply a departure or deviation from said equality within specified limits. For example, the term "corresponding coordinates", unless the description herein clearly dictates otherwise, means not only that these coordinates may be exactly equal to one another or may exactly coincide with one another but also implies that said equality or coincidence of coordinates may be established with some error (for example, with the error of operation of a GPS system) or within the bounds of a predetermined geographic region surrounding an exact geographic point or region to which these coordinates belong or an exact geographic location to which these coordinates belong.As used in the present invention, the term "unmanned aircraft apparatus" (UAA), unless the description herein clearly dictates otherwise, refers to an unmanned aerial means of transport which is configured to fly or which is capable of moving through the air in automatic mode, i.e. without involving a human or external control sources, or is capable of moving through the air in semi-automatic mode, i.e. with receipt of at least a portion of control commands from a human (for example, a pilot, an operator or the like) or an external source (for example, a control panel, control server, external control device or the like) via predetermined communication links. Unlimited examples of UAAs are a variety of multi-rotor UAAs, for example, multicopter drones; single-rotor UAAs, for example, unmanned helicopter; hybrid UAAs, for example, rotary wing drones; and the like.In the context of the present invention, the term "housing", unless the description herein clearly dictates otherwise, refers to a framework, skeleton, shell, panelling, fuselage, load-bearing structure or housing of a physical inanimate object, each of which may be formed from a single load-bearing element or a combination of coupled to one another load-bearing elements, wherein the type, shape, overall dimensions, design features and / or material of such housing are not specifically limited in any way.In the context of the present invention, the term "payload", unless the description herein clearly dictates otherwise, refers to people or living beings (in particular, to people or living beings as such or people or living beings placed into a capsule, cabin, accommodation module, cryomodule, rescue module, living compartment, living block and the like) or to cargo (to cargo as such or to cargo placed into crates, boxes, packages, bags, containers, reservoirs, vessels, tanks, canisters, receptacles, barrels, cisterns, cylinders, vessels, reservoirs, packs, bottles, flasks, glass containers, cylinders, cases, storage modules and the like) which may be accommodated in the housing of the means of transport performing the function of a carrier and intended for delivery, shipment or transportation of people, a variety of living beings and / or a variety of cargos through the air, over ground (land), over water and / or under water.As used in the present invention, the term "module", unless the description herein clearly dictates otherwise, refers to a functional element or a combination of functional elements of a device in the form of a part, node, block or other assembly unit that performs certain technical functions that provide for the functioning of the device. The module generally may be implemented in practice using a combination of known structural elements, a combination of known structural elements and known hardware, a combination of known structural elements and known software and hardware or a combination of known hardware and known software. Accordingly, for example, the control device may be implemented using hardware and software. As used in the present invention, the control device may be a physical device, an apparatus, or a plurality of modules implemented using hardware, for example, using an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) or a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), or a combination of hardware and software, for example, using a microprocessor system and a set of instructions implementing the functionality of the control device, which (when executed) transform the microprocessor system into an application-specific device or system (for example, automatic pilot system). Furthermore, each of the modules described herein or at least one of them may be implemented in the form of a combination of hardware and software, wherein some of the functionality described herein with respect to one of the modules may be implemented by means of hardware only, whereas other functionality described herein in relation to the same module or other module may be implemented by way of using hardware in combination with software. Furthermore, in the context of the present invention, the docking module 300 may be configured to detachably interact with at least one unmanned aircraft apparatus, wherein the docking module 300 may be implemented using a combination of known structural elements, a combination of known structural elements and hardware, a combination of structural elements and software and hardware or a combination of hardware and software.As used in the present invention, the term "navigation command", unless the description herein clearly dictates otherwise, refers to an instruction directed to aircraft apparatuses being part of the payload 100. Navigation commands may be presented or provided by the movement control system of the aircraft apparatuses in the form of digital or analog data, instructions, control signals or the like. Navigation commands may be initially generated by, without limitation, an automatic operator, an operator (whether locally or remotely situated) and / or an obstacle-avoidance system. In particular, navigation commands may be received, for example, by a control unit for controlling an aircraft apparatus being part of one of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses in the system for moving a payload.As used in the present invention, the term "manual control", unless the description herein clearly dictates otherwise, refers not only to control solely using human hands but also using human feet, fingers, voice, pupils or any suitable combination thereof. Thus, as used in the present invention, the term "manual control element" refers to at least one of the following: buttons, levers, joysticks, toggle switches, pedals, touch screen, gesture control sensors, pupil-tracking scanners, microphone and / or the like.As used in the present invention, the term "charging device", unless the description herein clearly dictates otherwise, refers to a device for replenishing the range of an aircraft apparatus by way of recharging the rechargeable battery thereof and / or by replenishing the fuel capacity thereof. As used in the present invention, the term "database", unless the description herein clearly dictates otherwise, refers to any structured data set that does not depend on a specific structure, database management software, hardware of the computer that stores data, uses data or otherwise makes data available for use. The database may be present on the same hardware running the process that stores or uses the information stored in the database or it may be present on separate hardware, for example, a dedicated server or on a plurality of servers.As used in the present invention, the term "parking station", unless the description herein clearly dictates otherwise, means an unmovable or movable structure adapted to accommodate aircraft apparatuses, store aircraft apparatuses and / or replenish the range (for example, recharge) of vehicles therein.As used in the present invention, the term "control device" refers to computing equipment executing a computer program for enabling receipt of requests (for example, from other computing devices) over a communication network, execution or processing of such requests and / or transmission of such requests over a communication network (for example, to other computing devices). The computing equipment executing a computer program may be, without limitation, a single physical computer or a single physical computer system. As used in the present invention, the use of the term "control device" does not mean that each computational task (for example, received instructions or commands) or any other specific task will be received, executed or cause performance by one and the same control device (i.e. by one and the same software and / or hardware), which means that any quantity of pieces of software or hardware may be involved in receiving / transmitting, executing or may cause performance of any task or request or the consequences of any task or request, where all that software and hardware may be implemented in the form of one or more control devices.As used in the present invention, the term "server" refers to computing equipment executing a computer program for enabling receipt of requests (for example, from other computing devices) over a communication network, execution or processing of such requests and / or transmission of such requests over a communication network (for example, to other computing devices). The computing equipment executing a computer program may be, without limitation, a single physical computer or a single physical computer system. As used in the present invention, the use of the term “server” does not mean that each computational task (for example, received instructions or commands) or any other specific task will be received, executed or cause performance by one and the same server (i.e. one and the same software and / or hardware), which means that any quantity of pieces of software or hardware may be involved in receiving / transmitting, executing or may cause performance of any task or request or the consequences of any task or request, where all that software and hardware may be implemented in the form of one or more servers. Air transport systemFig. 1 shows one of the illustrative embodiments of an air transport system 1000 according to the present invention comprising a payload 100 according to the present invention comprising a housing 110, which has the form of a cabin and which is configured to accommodate therein or thereon one or more users and / or one or more units of cargo, and two unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 each of which is configured to enter into a detachable interaction with, to detachably couple or to detachably dock to the housing 110 of the payload so as to enable movement through the air of the housing 110 of the payload and, accordingly, of the payload 100 itself to a target location.Of note, the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 to be detachably coupled to the housing 110 of the payload define a functional group of aircraft apparatuses enabling the housing 110 of the payload to be moved through the air under the control of a control device being part of the payload 100, wherein the control device of the payload 100 may be mounted in or on the housing 110 of the payload.In one of the embodiments of the present invention, to the housing 110 of the payload on the exterior thereof there may be simultaneously or sequentially detachably docked one or more unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 (for example, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten or more unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 depending on the target carrying capacity of the payload 100 and the dimensions of its housing 110) that are part of the air transport system 1000, wherein said docked unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 may be present on one and the same side of the housing 110 of the payload or on distinct sides of the housing 110 of the payload. In one of the variations of this embodiment of the present invention, in which to the housing 110 of the payload there may be docked two or more unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200, at least two or a portion of said aircraft apparatuses 200 may define a functional group of aircraft apparatuses, wherein the aircraft apparatuses 200 being part thereof operate under the control of the control device of the payload 100 so as to enable the payload 100 to be moved through the air. In another variation of this embodiment of the present invention, in which to the housing 110 of the payload there may be docked two or more unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200, each of said docked unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 may operate under the control of the cognate control device thereof being part of said docked unmanned aircraft apparatus 200.In another embodiment of the present invention, the housing 110 of the payload may be preliminarily provided with one or more aircraft apparatuses, which may be rigidly or non-detachably coupled to the housing 110 of the payload (for example, using welding, soldering or any fasteners known from the prior art) and which may also be part of the air transport system 1000, wherein at least one or each of said aircraft apparatuses preliminarily coupled to the housing 110 of the payload may be generally configured analogously to the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 or may be the aircraft apparatus 200. In one variation of this embodiment of the present invention, to the housing of the aircraft apparatus preliminarily coupled to the housing 110 of the payload there may be detachably docked one or more unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200, wherein said aircraft apparatuses preliminarily coupled to the housing 110 of the payload and the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 docked thereto may define one or more cluster aircraft apparatuses, operating each under the control of the control device of the payload 100, or operating each independently of one another under the control of the control device of at least one of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 being part of said cluster aircraft apparatus. In another variation of this embodiment of the present invention, one or more unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 may be docked to the housing 110 of the payload further to the aircraft apparatuses preliminarily coupled to the housing 110 of the payload so as to define one or more functional groups of aircraft apparatuses, operating each under the control of the control device of the payload 100 or under the control of the control device of at least one of said aircraft apparatuses being part of said functional group of aircraft apparatuses. In yet another variation of this embodiment of the present invention, one or more unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 may be detachably preliminarily docked to the housing 110 of the payload, wherein to at least one of said preliminarily docked unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 there may be further docked at least one additional unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 to define a cluster aircraft apparatus operating under the control of the control device of the payload 100.In yet another embodiment of the present invention, at least one or each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 which may be docked to the housing 110 of the payload and which are part of the air transport system 1000 may be a cluster unmanned aircraft apparatus defined by or composed of two or more aircraft apparatuses which are docked or coupled to one another, wherein each such cluster aircraft apparatus may comprise aircraft apparatuses of the same type or of distinct types. In one of the variations of this embodiment of the present invention, at least one or each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 which may be docked to the housing 110 of the payload may be configured in the form of two or more docked or coupled to one another cluster aircraft apparatuses, wherein each such cluster aircraft apparatus may be defined by two or more docked or coupled to one another aircraft apparatuses having the same type or distinct types, wherein the types of aircraft apparatuses, of which the distinct cluster aircraft apparatuses are comprised, may (fully or at least partially) coincide with one another or may (fully or at least partially) differ from one another.Of note, in the embodiments of the present invention described herein, the type, shape, geometric dimensions, materials of manufacture of any of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 which are part of the air transport system 1000 and which are to be docked to the housing 110 of the payload are not specifically limited in any manner.Each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 which are part of the air transport system 1000 and which are to be docked to the housing 110 of the payload may be implemented in the form of any suitable unmanned aircraft apparatus (UAA) known from the prior art and configured to take off into the air, move through the air (fly) and land in automatic mode (i.e. in autopilot mode that does not involve any participation of a human subject in the process of controlling the operation of the aircraft apparatus and / or that does not involve the receipt, by the aircraft apparatus, of any control or navigation commands from one or more external control sources), or in semi-automatic mode (i.e. in a mode that enables the use of autopilot, and also enables the participation of a human subject in the process of controlling the operation of the aircraft apparatus and / or enables the receipt, by the aircraft apparatus, of any control or navigation commands from one or more external control sources). Of note, in the case of operation in semi-automatic mode, any one of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 which are to be docked to the housing 110 of the payload may receive at least a portion of control commands from a human subject, for example, from a pilot, operator, or the like, or from an external control source, for example, a control panel, a control server, an external control device, or the like) via predetermined communication channels. In particular, non-limiting examples of such UAAs, in the form of one of which any one of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 may be configured, are various multi-rotor UAAs (for example, multicopter drones), single-rotor UAAs (for example, unmanned helicopters), hybrid UAAs (for example, rotary wing drones), and the like.As shown in Fig. 1, the both unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200, which are part of the air transport system 1000 and which are to be docked to the housing 110 of the payload, have approached the housing 110 of the payload so as to be disposed in a spatial region corresponding to the payload 100, and are present in a state of readiness to perform docking to the housing 110 of the payload, wherein the housings 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses are generally oriented in airspace with respect to the housing 110 of the payload so as to enable simultaneous or sequential docking to the housing 110 of the payload on distinct sides thereof, in particular on adjacent sides of the housing 110 of the payload.According to one embodiment of the present invention, at least one or each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 present in the air in a spatial region corresponding to the payload 100 and ready to perform docking to the housing 110 of the payload may be further detachably or non-detachably docked to one or more other unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200, previously or preliminarily docked to the housing 110 of the payload, during docking to the housing 110 of the payload so as to form a cluster unmanned aircraft apparatus docked to the housing 110 of the payload, wherein the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 forming said cluster unmanned aircraft apparatus enable movement of the payload 100 through the air under the control of the control device of the payload 100, the control device of at least one of said preliminarily docked unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200, the control device of at least one of said further docked unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200, or an external control device.As shown in Fig. 1, each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200, which are part of the air transport system 1000 and which are to be docked to the housing 110 of the payload, comprises a fuselage or housing 210 provided with two air propulsion units 220, each of which is detachably or non-detachably mounted on one of two opposite sides of the housing 210 and each of which includes one or more air propellers (for example, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten or more air air propellers, which or at least a portion of which are mounted in the same plane, in distinct planes or in parallel planes). Fig. 1-3 shows an embodiment according to which each of the air propulsion units 220 comprises two air propellers to form the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 in the form of a quadcopter. Further, in other embodiments, the air propulsion units 220 may comprise a distinct number of air propellers, such as one, three, four, five, six, seven or more, to form the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 in the form of a multicopter. The unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 in some embodiments may as well include more than two air propulsion units 220, each of which may comprise one or more air propellers. For example, the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 may comprise four air propellers 220, each comprising one propeller to form a system analogous to the illustrative example shown in Fig. 1-3. The number of air propulsion units 220 in certain embodiments may be two or more (for example, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten or more air propulsion units 220), each of which comprises one or more air propellers (for example, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten or more air propellers, which air propellers or at least some of which are mounted in the same plane, in distinct planes or in parallel planes). Of note, the housing 210 in each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 being part of the air transport system 1000 has the shape of a U-shaped frame or a U-shaped skeleton, whose structural elements are coupled to one another so as to form a cavity or hollow space between said structural elements of the housing 210, wherein the air propulsion units 220 are provided to parallelly disposed structural elements of the housing 210, which are coupled to one another by a transversely disposed structural element of the housing 210 in the form of a crossbar. Furthermore, each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 which are to be detachably coupled to the housing 110 of the payload comprises a control device configured to control the operation of such unmanned aircraft apparatus 200. In particular, the control device in each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200, which are part of the air transport system 1000, is communicatively coupled to the air propulsion units 220 so as to enable the control of operation thereof, in particular to enable the control of the operation of the air propellers (in particular to enable the switching-on, switching-off or altering of the operating characteristics of the air propellers, such as, for example, the speed of rotation or the direction of rotation) included in each of said air propulsion units 220, thus enabling flight or movement through the air of said unmanned aircraft apparatus 200. Of note, the control device in each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 which are to be detachably coupled to the housing 110 of the payload may control the operation of said unmanned aircraft apparatus 200, including the operation of the air propulsion units 220 thereof, in response to control instructions of the control device of the payload 100 or an external control device (for example, a control server for controlling the operation of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses).In one embodiment of the present invention, the housing 210 may have any other suitable shape, for example, it may be configured in the form of a C-shaped frame, an H-shaped frame, an O-shaped frame, a T-shaped frame, or the like.Of note, each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 being part of the air transport system 1000 is configured to undock or disconnect from the housing 110 of the payload in response to control instructions received by the control device of said unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 from the control device of the payload 100 or an external control device.As shown in Fig. 1, the housing 210 in each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 being part of the air transport system 1000 is provided with two air propulsion units 220, comprising each two air propellers and mounted on opposite sides of the housing 210 so as to enable movement of said unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 through the air along a predetermined trajectory of movement or in a predetermined direction, including landing and taking-off of said unmanned aircraft apparatus 200.In one embodiment of the present invention, the housing 210 in each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 being part of the air transport system 1000 may be provided with one or more air propulsion units 220 (for example, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten or more air propulsion units 220) detachably coupled to the housing 210 (i.e. detachment from the housing 210 is enabled) or rigidly coupled to the housing 210 (i.e. detachment from the housing 210 is not enabled) so as to enable, upon actuation thereof, the flight or movement through the air of said unmanned aircraft apparatus 200, wherein each of said air propulsion units 220 may be mounted on one of the sides of the housing 210 (for example, on the side of one of the coupled to one another structural elements of the housing 210). Of note, in this embodiment of the present invention, at least one or each of the air propulsion units 220 may include one or more air propellers, which air propellers or at least a portion of which may be actuated so as to enable the rotation thereof in the same direction of rotation or in distinct directions of rotation and / or enable the rotation thereof at the same speed of rotation or at distinct speeds of rotation. In one of the variations of this embodiment of the present invention, in at least one or each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200, all or at least a portion of the air propulsion units 220 may be mounted on one and the same side of the housing 210 or on distinct sides of the housing 210 so as to enable, upon actuation of all such air propulsion units 220 or at least a portion of same, the flight or movement through the air of said unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 along a predetermined trajectory of movement or in a predetermined direction.In another embodiment of the present invention, the housing 210 in at least one or each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 being part of the air transport system 1000 may be provided with two or more air propulsion units 220 which may be detachably or rigidly mounted on one of the sides of the housing 210 immediately adjacent to one another or at a predetermined distance from one another and each of which may comprise one or more air propellers (for example, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten or more air propellers), thus enabling, upon actuation of all or only at least a portion of the air propellers in at least one or each of said air propulsion units 220, the flight or movement through the air of said unmanned aircraft apparatus 200.In some embodiments of the present invention, the housing 210 in at least one or each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 being part of the air transport system 1000 may be provided with one or more air propulsion units 220, at least one or each of which may be fully or at least partially mounted in the housing 210 so as to extend, unfold or deploy therefrom under the control of the control device of said unmanned aircraft apparatus 200, including in response to control commands of the control device of the payload 100 or an external control device.The control device included in each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 being part of the air transport system 1000 may be mounted interiorly or exteriorly to the housing 210 so as to enable the control of the operation of said unmanned aircraft apparatus 200, including the operation of the air propellers in the air propulsion units 220 which are provided to the housing 210. Thus, the control device of the aircraft 200 is configured to present control commands to at least one or each of the air propulsion units 220 so as to enable actuation thereof, thus enabling the flight or movement of said unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 through the air. Of note, the simultaneous operation of all or at least most of air propulsion units 220 in at least one or each of the air propulsion units 220 which are provided to the housing 210 in at least one or each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 being part of the air transport system 1000 increases the carrying capacity of said unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 and, accordingly, of the payload 100 with said unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 docked thereto. In one of the embodiments of the present invention, all or at least a portion of the air propulsion units 220 in at least one or each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 being part of the air transport system 1000 may be actuated sequentially or substantially simultaneously using the control device of said unmanned aircraft apparatus 200. In another embodiment of the present invention, all or at least a portion of air propellers in at least one or each of the air propulsion units 220, which are provided to the housing 210 in at least one or each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 being part of the air transport system 1000, may be actuated by means of the control device of said unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 so as to enable the rotation thereof in the same direction or in distinct directions. In yet another embodiment of the present invention, at least one or each of the air propulsion units 220, which are provided to the housing 210 in at least one or each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 being part of the air transport system 1000, may be configured to rotate around the axis thereof by a predetermined angle under the control of the control device of said unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 or to displace with respect to the housing 210 of said unmanned aircraft apparatus 200.According to another embodiment of the present invention, the control device of at least one of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 being part of the air transport system 1000 may perform the functions of the control device of the payload 100, i.e. said control device of the aircraft 200 may be a control module of the payload 100, which control module presents control commands to the functional components of the payload 100. In one variation of this embodiment of the present invention, the control functions of the control device of the payload 100 may be distributed between the control devices of the aircraft apparatuses 200 being part of the air transport system 1000, such that said control devices of the aircraft apparatuses 200, which control devices are used in combination or in conjunction with one another, may form the control device of the payload 100. Furthermore, each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 being part of the air transport system 1000 shown in Fig. 1 comprises at least one of the following means of wireless communication: an SW band radio antenna, USW radio antenna, UHF radio antenna, an optical communication module, half-duplex / simplex satellite communication module, 2G / 3G / 4G / LTE / 5G cellular communication module, wireless communication module, wired communication module and the like, thus allowing each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 to receive navigation commands and / or control commands from the control device of the payload 100 and, accordingly, allowing the control device of the payload 100 to control the operation of said unmanned aircraft apparatus 200. Of note, navigation commands and / or control commands being received by any of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 from the control device of the payload 100 using the wireless communication means of said unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 are transferred from said wireless communication means of the aircraft apparatus 200 to the control device of the aircraft apparatus 200 for processing same by this control device of the aircraft apparatus 200.In some embodiments of the present invention, at least one or each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 being part of the air transport system 1000 may be operably coupled to the control device of the payload 100 in a wired manner so as to enable exchange of data with one another.In turn, the control device of the payload 100 as part of the air transport system 1000 shown in Fig. 1 is configured to receive and process data (including system requests) from each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 which are to be docked to the housing 110 of the payload, and is also configured to generate control instructions / commands and / or to generate navigation instructions / commands based on said received data and the results of processing thereof so as to enable such generated control commands and / or navigation commands to be presented or sent to at least one or each of said aircraft apparatuses 200, including in response to a request from said unmanned aircraft apparatus 200. For presenting navigation commands and / or control commands to at least one or each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200, which are part of the air transport system 1000 and which are to be docked to the housing 110 of the payload, the control device of the payload 100 is communicatively coupled, via a wireless communication network (not shown), to said aircraft apparatus 200.The control device in at least one or each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 being part of the air transport system 1000 shown in Fig. 1 is communicatively coupled to the above wireless communication means of said unmanned aircraft apparatus 200, thus allowing said control device of the aircraft apparatus 200 to process navigation commands and / or control commands received by the wireless communication means of the aircraft apparatus 200 from the control device of the payload 100 upon establishing a wireless communication channel therebetween, and allowing the operation of the aircraft apparatus 200 to be controlled depending on said navigation commands and / or control commands. In particular, in response to navigation commands and / or control commands from the control device of the payload 100, the control device of the aircraft apparatus 200 may, for example, enable performance of at least one of the following operations: (i) altering the flight speed of the aircraft apparatus 200, (ii) altering the flight direction of the aircraft apparatus 200, (iii) directing the aircraft apparatus 200 from a parking station (not shown) or a current airspace region to a target airspace region in which it is contemplated to detachably dock or couple the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 to the housing 110 of the payload; (iv) performing detachable docking or coupling of the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 to the housing 110 of the payload; (v) performing undocking or uncoupling of the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 from the housing 110 of the payload; (vi) moving or displacing the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 with respect to the housing 110 of the payload, and (vii) directing the undocked or detached unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 to one of the parking stations (not shown) for placement therein or thereon so as to enable storage of said unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 in said parking station and / or enable replenishment of the range (charging) of said unmanned aircraft apparatus 200.In various embodiments of the present invention, the control device (not shown) may as well not be part of the payload 100. In such embodiments of the present invention, the control device of the payload 100, which presents control commands and / or navigation commands to the control device of at least one or each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200, may be a single server which may be configured in the form of, for example, the Dell PowerEdge™ server on which there may be used the Ubuntu Server or Windows Server operating system. In various other embodiments of the present invention, the functions of the control device of the payload 100 may be shared among multiple remote computer devices or computing devices, for example, may be implemented using multiple servers coupled to one another via the communication network so as to mutually exchange data therebetween.In some embodiments of the present invention, the communication protocols and / or technical means used for data transfer or data exchange between the control device of the payload 100 and the aircraft apparatuses 200, may be at least partially different from one another and / or may at least partially coincide with one another. Furthermore, for data transfer or data exchange between the control device of the payload 100 and each aircraft apparatus 200 which is to be docked to the housing 110 of the payload, there may be simultaneously used one or more standard communication protocols and respective standard technical means of communication. In certain embodiments of the present invention, the control device of the payload 100 may be configured to organize safety during flight or movement through the air of at least one or each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 which are to be docked or coupled to the housing 110 of the payload or which are to be undocked or uncoupled from the housing 110 of the payload. In one of the variations of such embodiments of the present invention, the control device of the payload 100 may be further configured to organize safety during the flight or movement through the air of the payload 100 using the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 docked or coupled to the housing 110 of the payload.Furthermore, the control device of the payload 100 may have or may acquire access to at least one remote or external database (not shown) via the communication network or in other (wired or wireless) manner, or may have or acquire access to at least one local database stored on a storage device (not shown), which may be mounted in the housing 110 of the payload, or in the memory (not shown) which may be part of such control device of the payload 100 or may be mounted in the housing 110 of the payload.In some embodiments of the present invention, the control device of the payload 100 may be any other suitable hardware, application software, system software or any combination thereof.The communication network, to which there may be communicatively coupled the control devices of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 and the control device of the payload 100 and which may be part of the air transport system 1000, also allows the control device of the payload 100 and the control devices of the aircraft apparatuses 200 to exchange between one another the system data and / or operational data which they use for implementing functions thereof or functional capabilities thereof described herein. Of note, the communication network also allows the control devices of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 to exchange between one another the system data and / or operational data which they may also use for implementing functions thereof or functional capabilities thereof described herein. The communication network may be, for example, any suitable wireless communication link known from the prior art, such as a Wi-Fi wireless technology-based communication link, 2G, 3G, 4G or 5G wireless technology-based communication link, LTE technology-based communication link and / or the like.In one of the embodiments of the present invention, the air transport system 1000 may comprise two or more wireless communication networks configured each analogously to the above communication network and used to perform mutual data exchange between the control devices of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200, the control device of the payload 100, any other functional devices which may be part of the air transport system 1000, and / or any functional components that may be part of the payload 100 or part of any one of said unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200, in real-time mode or in real time. Each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 being part of the air transport system 1000 comprises an (embedded) integrated power supply source (not shown) configured in the form of a battery, one or more rechargeable batteries, an internal combustion engine generator, a hydrogen engine generator, a generator based on one or more solar panels, or a generator based on any other suitable energy source known from the prior art, wherein said integrated power supply source may also be configured to be charged from an external power supply source (not shown) using a charging device (not shown) of a suitable type coupled to said external power supply source and configured to connect thereto said integrated power supply source. In particular, the integrated power supply source in each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 being part of the air transport system 1000 is coupled, by means of the power supply circuit of the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200, to the control device of the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 and any other functional components of the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 described herein so as to enable supply of power thereto or enable powering thereof. In another embodiment of the present invention, the integrated power supply source in at least one or each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 being part of the air transport system 1000 may be charged in a wireless manner using an external charging device (not shown) whose operation is based on the principle of electromagnetic induction which principle will be appreciated by one skilled in art.According to one embodiment of the present invention, the control device of at least one or each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 being part of the air transport system 1000 may further enable said unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 to be directed to a parking station (not shown). Such parking station may be provided with one or more charging devices (not shown) electrically coupled each to at least one of the power supply sources of the parking station and enabling each the coupling of the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 thereto for at least partial charging or for at least partial replenishment of the range of said coupled aircraft apparatus 200 such that said unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 may switch to a state with at least a partially replenished range or fully replenished range, thus allowing for it to be detachably re-docked or re-coupled to the housing 110 of the payload for moving the payload 100 through the air.Of note, in embodiments of the present invention, wherein the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 may be coupled to one or more charging devices of the parking station to charge same or replenish the range thereof, each of the power supply sources of the parking station in this embodiment of the present invention may be one or more rechargeable batteries, an internal combustion engine generator, a hydrogen engine generator, a solar panel and any other suitable energy source known from the prior art. Of note, at least one or each of the charging devices (not shown) of the parking station in such embodiments of the present invention may be a wireless charging device, a wired charging device or a charging dock. Alternatively, at least one or each of the charging devices of the parking station may be configured, for example, in the form of a device for supplying electrical energy, a device for supplying liquid or gaseous fuel and / or the like. As yet another alternative, at least one or each of the charging devices of the parking station may be hydraulically coupled to a pump (not shown) coupled by a hydraulic line to a reservoir or container (not shown) with fuel in a manner to enable intake of fuel from said container so as to enable supply of said intaken volume of fuel to the fuel tank of the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 which fuel tank is hydraulically coupled to the fuel-powered engine of the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200, thus allowing to replenish the range of the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 (in particular, due to at least partial replenishment of fuel volume in the fuel tank of the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200).In one of the embodiments of the present invention, the control device of at least one or each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 being part of the air transport system 1000 may further enable detachable docking or detachable coupling of said unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 with a replenished range to the housing 110 of the payload in substitution for at least one of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 with an insufficient range or with a range below a predetermined threshold value, which are detachably coupled to the housing 110 of the payload, or further to said unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 with an insufficient range or with a range below a predetermined threshold value, wherein the payload 100, during said docking process, may be present in the air or on the surface of the ground (or the surface of another object which in turn may be present on the ground, on the surface of water and / or in the air). In one of the variations of this embodiment of the present invention, the process of docking or of detachable coupling itself of the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 with a replenished range to the housing 110 of the payload may be controlled by the control device of the payload 100 which control device presents control commands and / or navigation commands to the control device of said unmanned aircraft apparatus 200.In yet another embodiment of the present invention, while docking or coupling the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 to the housing 110 of the payload, the power supply circuit of the coupled unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 may be further electrically coupled to the power supply circuit of the payload 100 to form a single power supply circuit (for example, using a connecting power cable which may be laid interiorly to the housing 110 of the payload or exteriorly to the housing 110 of the payload and which may be coupled to the power supply circuit of the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 provided in the housing 210) and a cluster power source (for example, such cluster power source may be formed from the batteries of the aircraft apparatus 200 and the batteries of the payload 100 which are accommodated in the housing 110 of the payload) which supplies power or powers all of the functional components of the aircraft apparatus 200 and the payload 100 substantially simultaneously, such that charging one of the individual power sources in such a cluster power source from an external power source (not shown) using a charging device (not shown) of a suitable type makes it possible to speak about charging the entire cluster power source. Of note, in such embodiment of the present invention, the range of one or more unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 coupled to the housing 110 of the payload may be generally controlled by the control device of at least one of said unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 or by the control device of the payload 100 by way of monitoring the state of the cluster power source (for example, by monitoring the residual charge of the cluster battery). In one of the variations of such embodiment of the present invention, the cluster power supply source may be recharged from two or more external power supply sources (not shown) using two or more charging devices (not shown) of a suitable type which may be electrically coupled each to the respective one of said external power supply sources and each of which may be configured to enable one or more of the power supply sources being part of said cluster power supply source to be coupled thereto such that such cluster power supply source may substantially be recharged by way of parallelly recharging the individual power supply sources thereof.As shown in Fig. 1, in order to enable formation of a detachable coupling between the housing 110 of the payload and the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 being part of the air transport system 1000, the housing 110 of the payload is provided with a module 300 for docking or docking module 300, comprising two docking mechanisms or means, each of which is mounted on the upper portion or roof of the housing 110 of the payload, opposite to the lower portion or bottom of the housing 110 of the payload, which is placed on a supporting surface upon landing of the payload 100, so as to enter into detachable interaction with the housing 210 belonging to one of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 which are part of the air transport system 1000 upon docking of said unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 to the housing 110 of the payload. In other words, the docking means, which may be part of the docking module 300, may form the docking module 300 or which may be provided to the docking module 300, are substantially mounted on one and the same side of the housing 110 of the payload such that each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 which are to be docked to the housing 110 of the payload may enter into detachable interaction with any one of said docking means of the docking module 300 while performing the process of docking of said unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 to the housing 110 of the payload under the control of the control device of the payload 100.According to certain non-limiting embodiments, the housing 110 of the payload may be provided with a module 300 for docking or docking module 300 comprising at least two docking mechanisms or means, each of which is mounted in the lower portion or on the bottom of the housing 110 of the payload (not shown). According to certain non-limiting embodiments, the housing 110 of the payload may be provided with a module 300 for docking or docking module 300 comprising at least two docking mechanisms or means, each of which is mounted in the front or rear portion of the housing 110 of the payload (not shown). According to certain non-limiting embodiments, the housing 110 of the payload may be provided with a module 300 for docking or docking module 300 comprising at least two docking mechanisms or means, each of which is mounted on one lateral portion of the housing 110 of the payload (not shown). The embodiment shown in Fig. 1, wherein the docking module 300 comprises two docking mechanisms or means, each of which is mounted on the upper portion or roof of the housing 110 of the payload, is a non-limiting embodiment.In one embodiment of the present invention, the docking module 300 may be configured integral to the housing 110 of the payload. In another embodiment of the present invention, the docking module 300 may be secured on the housing 110 of the payload using one or more prior-art fastening means. In yet another embodiment of the present invention, the docking module 300 may be coupled to the housing 110 of the payload using one or more prior-art coupling means.According to one embodiment of the present invention, the module 300 for docking may comprise or the docking module 300 may comprise two or more docking means (for example, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, or more docking means), each of which is configured to be capable of entering into detachable interaction with one or more unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 being part of the air transport system 1000. According to another embodiment of the present invention, the docking module 300 may be provided with two or more docking means (for example, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, or more docking means), each of which may be configured to enter into detachable interaction with one or more unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 being part of the air transport system 1000, and may be secured on the docking module 300 using one or more prior-art fastening means or coupled to the docking module 300 using one or more prior-art coupling means.As shown in Fig. 1, the docking means of the payload 100 are mounted each at a predetermined distance from the surface of the roof of the housing 110 of the payload such that they are disposed vertically at a distance from one another. In other words, the docking means of the payload 100 are disposed at distinct distances from the surface of the roof of the housing 110 of the payload, i.e., at distinct distances from the surface of one and the same side of the housing 110 of the payload.In one embodiment of the present invention, the docking means of the payload 100 may be mounted each at a predetermined distance from the surface of any one of the sides of the housing 110 of the payload so as to alter the distance therebetween vertically.In another embodiment of the present invention, the docking means of the payload 100 may be mounted on a vertical post (not shown) extending from the housing 110 of the payload on one of the sides thereof such that they are disposed at a distance from one another along the length of said vertical post.In particular, as shown in Fig. 1, each of the two docking means of the payload 100 is formed by two adjacent docking plates secured to one another such that they are disposed generally parallel to one another and are present at a predetermined distance from one another, which distance is suitable for passage therebetween of the housing 210 of one of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200, which are part of the air transport system 1000, upon entry of said housing 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatus into detachable interaction with said docking means of the payload 100. Thus, the target location with respect to the housing 110 of the payload, which the housing 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatus occupies as a result of entry into detachable interaction with the respective docking means of the payload 100 followed by movement between the respective two adjacent docking plates forming said docking means of the payload 100, substantially corresponds to the predetermined location of said housing 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatus with respect to said adjacent docking plates.Fig. 2 shows the air transport system 1000, wherein one of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200, which had previously approached the housing 110 of the payload for performing docking to the housing 110 of the payload, has entered into detachable interaction with one of the docking means of the payload 100 so as to occupy the target location thereof with respect to the housing 110 of the payload, whereas the other one of said unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 is still present in a spatial region corresponding to the payload 100 in a state of readiness to perform docking to the housing 110 of the payload.Of note, each of the docking means of the payload 100 is configured to enable movement of the housing 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatus with respect to the housing 110 of the payload upon entry of the housing 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatus into detachable interaction with said docking means of the payload 100, wherein the housing 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatus substantially moves between two adjacent docking plates forming said docking means of the payload 100 so as to alter the location thereof with respect to the housing 110 of the payload until reaching the target location thereof with respect to the housing 110 of the payload, which target location is controlled by the control device of the payload 100. Of note, while the movement of the housing 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatus between the adjacent docking plates forming the docking means of the payload 100, with which said housing 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatus has entered into detachable interaction, with altering of the location thereof with respect to the housing 110 of the payload, said housing 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatus comes into contact interaction with at least one or each of said adjacent docking plates.In one embodiment of the present invention, at least one or each of the docking means of the payload 100 may be configured to enable movement of the housing 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatus with respect to the housing 110 of the payload upon entry of said housing 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatus into detachable interaction with said docking means of the payload 100 such that the housing 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatus, as a result of said movement, may occupy the target location thereof with respect to the housing 110 of the payload.Fig. 3 shows the air transport system 1000, wherein the both unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200, which had previously approached the housing 110 of the payload for performing docking to the housing 110 of the payload, have entered into detachable interaction with the respective docking means of the payload 100 so as to occupy the target locations thereof with respect to the housing 110 of the payload.As shown in Fig. 3, as a result of the entry of the housings 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses into detachable interaction with the respective docking means of the payload 100, said housings 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses turn out to be disposed one above another or on top of one another (i.e., turn out to be disposed in parallel planes) on one and the same side of the housing 110 of the payload, wherein adjacent housings 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses are substantially separated from one another by a docking plate which is common to adjacent docking means of the payload 100, with which said housings 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses have entered into interaction.As shown in Fig. 1, the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200, which are to be docked to the payload 100, must approach a spatial region corresponding to the payload 100 from distinct sides of the housing 110 of the payload, in particular from adjacent sides of the housing 110 of the payload, and must simultaneously or sequentially orient the housings 210 thereof in airspace with respect to said sides of the housing 110 of the payload such that, upon docking of said unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 to the housing 110 of the payload, each of the air propulsion units 220 turns out to be disposed on a respective one of the sides of the housing 110 of the payload.As shown in Fig. 3, as a result of the entry of the housings 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses into detachable interaction with the respective docking means of the payload, the air propulsion units 220, which are provided to said unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 being docked, turn out to be arranged in parallel planes on different sides of the housing 110 of the payload or with a predetermined angular offset around the perimeter of the housing 110 of the payload (in particular, in a crisscross manner) such that the air flows generated by said air propulsion units 220 generally do not intersect and, consequently, do not cause swinging or destabilization of the housing 110 of the payload in airspace.Thus, the control device of the payload 100, as a result of processing data on the state of the docking means of the payload 100 being received from the docking module 300, which is communicatively coupled to the control device of the payload 100, presents control commands to one or more unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200, which have approached the housing 110 of the payload, so as to enable entry of the housings 210 related to said unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200, which have received said presented control commands, into detachable interaction with the respective free docking means of the payload 100. It should be noted that the data on the state of the docking means of the payload 100, being received by the control device of the payload 100 from the docking module 300 in response to a system request from the control device of the payload 100 or in real time, substantially contain information on occupied (engaged) docking means of the payload 100, as well as information on each side of the housing 110 of the payload on which the aircraft apparatus 200 has been docked to a respective one of said occupied docking means of the payload 100, thus allowing the control device of the payload 100 to know not only the unoccupied (unengaged) docking means of the payload 100, but also to know on which specific sides of the housing 110 of the payload there are present the air propulsion units 220 related to the housings 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses docked to said occupied docking means of the payload 100. Of note, the control commands presented by the control device of the payload 100 to a specific unmanned aircraft apparatus 200, which is present in an airspace region corresponding to the payload 100 in a state of readiness to perform docking to the housing 110 of the payload, substantially not only indicate, to the control device of the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200, the specific docking means of the payload 100, with which the housing 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatus is to enter into detachable interaction for performing docking to the payload 100, but also (if necessary) instruct the control device of the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 to alter the orientation of the housing 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatus in airspace with respect to the housing 110 of the payload so as to enable the arrangement of the air propulsion units 220, related to all unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 docked (previously and newly) to the payload 100, in parallel planes on distinct sides of the housing 110 of the payload or with a predetermined angular offset around the perimeter of the housing 110 of the payload.In one embodiment of the present invention, the housing 110 of the payload may be provided with two or more air propulsion units (not shown) forming at least one functional pair of air propulsion units operating under the control of the control device of the payload 100, wherein each of said air propulsion units may be secured on one of two opposite sides of the housing 110 of the payload, or said air propulsion units may be secured on opposite sides of the housing 110 of the payload. In this embodiment of the present invention, the air propulsion units of the payload 100 are mounted on the housing 110 of the payload so as to enable passage therebetween of the housing 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatus upon entry of said housing 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatus into detachable interaction with a respective one of the docking means of the payload 100. Furthermore, in this embodiment of the present invention, the control device of the payload 100 may be configured to present control commands to the air propellers defining the above functional pair of air propulsion units for actuating (switching on) or switching off at least one or each of said air propulsion units. Of note, in this embodiment of the present invention, at least one or each of the air propulsion units, which may be further provided to the housing 110 of the payload, may be actuated under the control of the control device of the payload 100 prior to docking of the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 to the housing 110 of the payload or after undocking of the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 from the housing 110 of the payload, thus making it possible to enable the flight of the payload 100 for a predetermined period of time either completely without using the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 which are part of the air transport system 1000 and which are to be docked to the housing 110 of the payload to enable the movement of the payload through the air, or using the minimum required number of unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 docked to the housing 110 of the payload. Of note, in this embodiment of the present invention, at least one or each of the air propulsion units, which may be provided to the housing 110 of the payload, may be actuated under the control of the control device of the payload 100 while docking of one or more unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 to the housing 110 of the payload and, accordingly, may operate further to at least one of the air propulsion units 220 of at least one or each of said docked unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 or may operate instead of at least one of the air propulsion units 220 of at least one or each of said docked unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200.In yet another embodiment of the present invention, the housing 110 of the payload may be provided with two air propulsion units provided on opposite sides of the housing 110 of the payload, wherein the docking means of the payload 100 may be mounted on the housing 110 of the payload so as to enable the placement of the air propulsion units of the housing 110 of the payload and the air propulsion units of the housing 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatus docked to the housing 110 of the payload in the same plane on distinct sides of the housing 110 of the payload or with a predetermined angular offset along the perimeter of the housing 110 of the payload upon introducing said housing 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatus into detachable interaction with one of said docking means. In one variation of this embodiment of the present invention, the docking means of the payload 100 may be mounted on the side of the housing 110 of the payload which side is adjacent to the opposite sides of the housing 110 of the payload which are provided with the air propulsion units.In yet another embodiment of the present invention, the housing 110 of the payload may be provided with two air propulsion units provided on opposite sides of the housing 110 of the payload, and the docking means of the payload 100 may be mounted on the housing 110 of the payload so as to enable the introduction of the housing 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatus into detachable interaction with said docking means of the payload 100 on one of said opposite sides of the housing 110 of the payload or on the side of the housing 110 of the payload which side is adjacent to said opposite sides of the housing 110 of the payload.In another embodiment, the docking module 300 may be provided with two or more air propulsion units (not shown) forming at least one functional pair of air propulsion units operating under the control of the control device of the payload 100, wherein each of said air propulsion units may be secured on one of two opposite sides of the docking module 300, or said air propulsion units may be secured on opposite sides of the docking module 300. In this embodiment of the present invention, the control device of the payload 100 may be configured to present control commands to the air propellers defining the above functional pair of air propulsion units for actuating (switching on) or switching off at least one or each of said air propulsion units. Of note, in this embodiment of the present invention, at least one or each of the air propulsion units, which are provided to the docking module 300, may be actuated under the control of the control device of the payload 100 prior to docking of the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 to the docking module 300 or after undocking of the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 from the docking module 300, thus making it possible to enable the flight of the payload 100 for a predetermined period of time either completely without using the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200, which are part of the air transport system 1000 and which are to be docked to the docking module 300 to enable the movement of the housing 110 of the payload through the air, or using the minimum required number of unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 docked to the docking module 300. Of note, in this embodiment of the present invention, at least one or each of the air propulsion units, which may be provided to the docking module 300, may be actuated under the control of the control device of the payload 100 while docking of one or more unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 to the docking module 300 and, accordingly, may operate further to at least one of the air propulsion units 220 of at least one or each of said docked unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 or may operate instead of at least one of the air propulsion units 220 of at least one or each of said docked unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200.In yet another embodiment of the present invention, on at least one or at least each of the two opposite sides of the housing 110 of the payload or of the docking module 300 there may be mounted one or more air propulsion units (for example, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten or more air propulsion units), wherein said air propulsion units disposed on said opposite sides of the housing may form at least one functional pair of air propulsion units operating under the control of the control device of the payload 100.In another embodiment of the present invention, the housing 110 of the payload may as well not be provided with the docking module 300, and one or more air propulsion units, with which the housing 110 of the payload may be further provided, may be mounted immediately on the housing 110 of the payload itself or may be configured integral to the housing 110 of the payload.In some embodiment of the present invention, at least one or each of the air propulsion units, which may be further provided to the housing 110 of the payload, may be mounted on one of the sides of the housing 110 of the payload so as to extend, unfold or deploy from the housing 110 of the payload under the control of the control device of the payload 100. Alternatively, at least one or each of the air propulsion units, with-- which the docking module 300 may be further provided, may be mounted on one of the sides of the body of the docking module 300 so as to extend, unfold or deploy from said body of the docking module 300 under the control of the control device of the payload 100.In some other embodiment of the present invention, at least one or each of the air propulsion units which may be further provided to the housing 110 of the payload may be mounted on one of the sides of the housing 110 of the payload so as to alter the location thereof on said side of the housing 110 of the payload. Alternatively, at least one or each of the air propulsion units, with which the docking module 300 may be further provided, may be mounted on one of the sides of the body of the docking module 300 so as to alter the location thereof on said side of the body of the docking module 300.In some other embodiment of the present invention, at least one or each of the air propulsion units which may be further provided to the housing 110 of the payload may be mounted on one of the sides of the housing 110 of the payload on a guide and may be operably coupled to a drive device or a drive 100 of the payload, operating under the control of a control device of the payload 100 so as to enable displacement or movement of said at least one air propulsion unit along said guide by a predetermined distance regulated or controlled by the control device of the payload 100 in accordance with a predetermined route of movement stored in the memory device of the payload 100, to which the control device of the payload 100 has access or may acquire access. Alternatively, at least one or each of the air propulsion units which may be further provided to the docking module 300 may be mounted on one of the sides of the docking module 300 on a guide and may be operably coupled to a drive device or a drive 100 of the payload, operating under the control of a control device of the payload 100 so as to enable displacement or movement of said at least one air propulsion unit along said guide by a predetermined distance regulated or controlled by the control device of the payload 100 in accordance with a predetermined route of movement stored in the memory device of the payload 100, to which the control device of the payload 100 has access or may acquire access.In other embodiments of the present invention, at least one or each of the air propulsion units which may be further provided to the housing 110 of the payload may be mounted or secured on one of the sides of the housing 110 of the payload on a carriage mounted on said side of the housing 110 of the payload and operably coupled to a drive device or a drive of the payload 100, operating under the control of the control device of the payload 100, so as to enable displacement or movement of said carriage with respect to the housing 110 of the payload by a predetermined distance regulated or controlled by the control device of the payload 100 in accordance with a predetermined route of movement stored in the memory device of the payload 100, to which the control device of the payload 100 has access or may acquire access. Alternatively, at least one or each of the air propulsion units which may be further provided to the docking module 300 may be mounted or secured on one of the sides of the body of the docking module 300 on a carriage mounted on said side of the body of the docking module 300 and operably coupled to a drive device or a drive of the payload 100, operating under the control of the control device of the payload 100, so as to enable displacement or movement of said carriage with respect to the housing 110 of the payload by a predetermined distance regulated or controlled by the control device of the payload 100 in accordance with a predetermined route of movement stored in the memory device of the payload 100, to which the control device of the payload 100 has access or may acquire access.In other embodiments of the present invention, at least one or each of the docking means of the payload may be a controllable docking mechanism (not shown), and the control device of the payload 100 may be operably coupled to said docking mechanisms so as to enable control of operation thereof such that, for docking the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 to the housing 110 of the payload, the control device of the payload 100 may present control commands to the docking mechanism which is to be engaged for performing said docking, and for occupying, by the docked unmanned aircraft apparatus 200, the target location thereof on the housing 110 of the payload (i.e., for placing same at the target location with respect to the housing 110 of the payload), the control device of the payload 100 may present control commands to said engaged docking mechanism so as to enable movement of said docked unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 with respect to the housing 110 of the payload to said target location. Thus, in such embodiments of the present invention, any docking mechanism actuated in response to the respective control commands of the control device of the payload 100 enables docking of the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 to the housing 110 of the payload and advancement of the housing 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatus to the target location on the housing 110 of the payload, which target location is known to the control device of the payload 100. In one variation of this embodiment of the present invention, the housing 110 of the payload may be further provided with infrared or ultrasonic contact sensors, corresponding each to one of the docking mechanisms of the payload 100, wherein each such contact sensor may be configured to detect or identify the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 which is to be docked to the housing 110 of the payload, and may be communicatively coupled to the control device of the payload 100 so as to enable output of data on the identified unmanned aircraft apparatus to the control device of the payload 100 for actuating, by means of the control device of the payload 100, the necessary docking mechanism which is to enable docking of said identified unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 to the housing 110 of the payload and enable movement of such docked unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 with respect to the housing 110 of the payload for occupying the target location thereof, which target location is controlled by the control device of the payload 100.In one of the embodiments of the present invention, the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 docked to the housing 110 of the payload may be moved with respect to the housing 110 of the payload to a target location on the housing 110 of the payload under the action of the forces of inertia (i.e., by inertia) generated at the moment of docking of said unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 with the housing 110 of the payload and sufficient to provide for generally rectilinear advance of the docked unmanned aircraft apparatus 200, whose housing 210 has been brought into detachable interaction with the respective docking means of the payload 100, with respect to the housing 110 of the payload to the target location on the housing 110 of the payload. Thus, in this embodiment of the present invention, the inertial forces possessed by the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 at the moment of docking thereof to the housing 110 of the payload are sufficient for advancing the housing 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatus with respect to the housing 110 of the payload to the target location on the housing 110 of the payload.In another embodiment of the present invention, at least one further or other (second) unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 being part of the air transport system 1000 may be further detachably docked to the docking module 300, which is already provided with two or more unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 also being part of the air transport system 1000 and previously docked to the docking module 300, by way of bringing the housing 210 thereof into detachable interaction with a free docking means of the payload 100 such that at least one air propulsion unit 220 may turn out to be present on at least one or each of the sides of the housing 110 of the payload. In other words, at any moment of time in the air transport system 1000, yet another or other (second) unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 may be docked to the docking module 300 further to the previously docked thereto unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 disposed on the housing 110 of the payload at target locations thereof.The unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 previously docked to the housing 110 of the payload may be withdrawn from interaction with the respective docking means of the payload 100 under the control of the control device of the payload 100 such that, as a result, said previously docked unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 turns out to be undocked from the docking module 300 and, consequently, from the housing 110 of the payload. Of note, the control of the operation of the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 undocked from the payload 100 may be switched to the control device of this undocked unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 or an external control device. Of further note, the above process of docking yet another (additional) unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 to the housing 110 of the payload and the above process of undocking the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 previously docked to the housing 110 of the payload from said payload housing 110, in particular from the docking module 300, which is provided to the housing 110 of the payload, may be implemented or carried out under the control of the control device of the payload 100 while movement of the payload 100 through the air. In some embodiments of the present invention, the above process of docking yet another (additional) unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 to the housing 110 of the payload and the above process of undocking the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 previously docked to the housing 110 of the payload from said payload housing 110 may be implemented or carried out under the control of the control device of the payload 100 while presence of the housing 110 of the payload on the surface of the earth, on which surface the payload 100 may be placed upon completion of landing or from which surface the payload 100 may be lifted into the air upon takeoff.According to another embodiment of the present invention, further to the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 previously docked to the docking module 300 and being present on the housing 110 of the payload in target locations thereof, to the docking module 300 there may be sequentially (at predetermined intervals or periods of time) or simultaneously docked two or more additional unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200. In one variation of this embodiment of the present invention, all unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 (i.e. the further docked unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 and the previously docked unmanned aircraftes apparatus 200) docked to the docking module 300 may occupy the target locations thereof with respect to the housing 100 of the payload which are regulated or controlled by the control device of the payload 100. In another variation of this embodiment of the present invention, each or at least one of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 further docked to the docking module 300 may occupy the target location thereof on the housing 110 of the payload, which target location is adjustable or controllable by the control device of the payload 100, and at least one of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 previously docked to the docking module 300 may be undocked from the housing 110 of the payload while docking or after docking to the housing 110 of the payload by said additional unmanned aircraft apparatus 200. In yet another variation of this embodiment of the present invention, one or more of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 further docked to the docking module 300 may be sequentially undocked from the housing 110 of the payload after undocking of the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200, previously docked to the docking module 300, from the housing 110 of the payload. In some embodiments of the present invention, the housing 110 of the payload may be provided with one or more docking modules 300, each of which may be accessible from one of the sides of the housing 110 of the payload and to each of which, at any particular moment or period of time, there may be docked two or more unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 being part of the air transport system 1000.According to another embodiment of the present invention, the docking module 300 which is provided to the housing 110 of the payload may be configured to be at least partially situated in the housing 110 of the payload. Thus, the docking module 300 in this embodiment of the present invention may be at least partially recessed or sunk into the housing 110 of the payload.According to another embodiment of the present invention, the docking module 300, which is provided to the housing 110 of the payload, may be mounted in the housing 110 of the payload so as to extend, unfold or deploy therefrom under the control of the control device of the payload 100, in particular in response to control commands of the control device of the payload 100, control commands of the aircraft apparatus 200 which is to be detachably docked to the housing 110 of the payload, or control commands of an external control device (i.e., an external control source).As shown in Figs. 1-3, the housing 110 of the payload is configured in the form of a passenger or user cabin configured to accommodating therein one or more people (for example, one or more passengers and / or a pilot), wherein, further thereto, in said cabin there may be accommodated various living creatures and / or various loads of any type, wherein said user cabin may be further provided with viewing windows and an entrance in the form of an entrance door or hatch. Of note, the housing 110, to which there may may be docked or coupled two or more unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200, may be used for the delivery, carriage or transportation of people, various living beings and / or cargos of various types (solid, gaseous, liquid, fluid, bulk, viscous, radioactive, chemical, and / or the like) through the air to a target location which in turn may be located on the surface of the ground (on land), on the surface of a mobile or stationary ground object (for example, on a ground platform, bridge, TV tower, truck housing, roof of a building, or the like), the surface of a stationary water object (for example, on an offshore platform, a marine buoy, pontoon, or the like), the surface of a movable water object (for example, on the deck of a ship, barge, diesel-engine-powered ship, liner, power boat, or the like), the surface of a stationary or movable air object (for example, on the fuselage of an airplane, balloon, or the like) or the surface of any other suitable objects known from the prior art.In the internal space of the housing 110 of the payload there may be mounted a seat which may accommodate a driver, user or pilot capable of controlling the travel or movement of the payload 100 through the air using a steering mechanism or rudder (i.e. an element for controlling the direction of travel or movement) which is provided to a control panel secured or mounted in the internal space of the housing 110, wherein the function of the pilot may be performed by any of the users or passengers being present in said internal space of the housing 110. The control panel may comprise an instrument panel, monitoring elements and control elements necessary for the pilot to control the movement of the payload 100 through the air to a target region of space, including for the subsequent landing of the payload 100 to place this payload 100 in a parking place, a storage place, a place for replenishing the range, a repair place, a maintenance place, or the like.In one of the embodiments of the present invention, in the internal space of the housing 110 of the payload, further to the pilot, there may be further accommodated at least one passenger, at least one passenger's baggage item and / or at least one cargo item, wherein said pilot, passengers, cargo items and passenger's baggage items may be accommodated in respective places in the common internal space or may each be accommodated in respective individual area thereof at least partially limited by one or more partitions, or in an individual compartment at least partially limited by one or more partitions. In one of the variations of this embodiment of the present invention, the seat may be disposed in the pilot's cabin formed in the internal space of the housing 110 of the payload and separated by a partition from the remaining portion of the internal space of the housing 110, which remaining portion in turn may be divided by other partition into a passenger compartment, in which compartment there may be mounted one or more passenger seats to accommodate therein passengers, and into a baggage or cargo compartment, in which compartment there may be accommodated cargo (in particular, one or more cargo items) and / or passenger's baggage (in particular, one or more passenger's baggage items), wherein said cargo items, passenger's baggage items and / or passenger seats may be disposed or secured on the bottom, floor and / or walls of the housing 110. In another variation of this embodiment of the present invention, in the passenger compartment in the housing 110 of the payload, instead of or further to passenger seats, there may be provided the following: (i) rails mounted on the lateral walls, floor and / or ceiling of the housing 110 for accommodating passengers in any position in the housing 110 of the payload, for example, sitting or standing position on the floor of the housing 110; (ii) couches, beds or benches secured to the floor, walls and / or ceiling of the housing 110 for accommodating thereon passengers in a sitting, standing and / or lying position; (iii) specialized areas for accommodating disabled people in a sitting, standing and / or lying position; (iv) specialized areas for wheelchairs used by disabled people; (v) specialized areas for accommodating baby cots used by infants and (if necessary) specialized areas for accompanying persons; (vi) specialized areas for accommodating gurneys for transporting patients used by bedridden patients, and / or (vii) specialized areas for accommodating sports equipment. Of note, the quantity of passengers in the passenger compartment in the housing 110 of the payload may be from one person to several tens or even hundreds of people without making any limitations, wherein said quantity of passengers is substantially limited only by the volume or size of the passenger compartment within the internal space of the housing 110. In yet another variation of this embodiment of the present invention, in the cargo compartment of the housing 110 of the payload there may be enabled not only accommodation of cargo and / or passenger luggage on the floor of the housing 110 but also attachment thereof in the cargo compartment of the housing 110 using conventional fastening means known from the prior art, wherein in the cargo compartment of the housing 110 there may be further provided shelves, hangers, crates and other carrying means attached to the floor, ceiling and / or lateral walls of the housing 110 and allowing additional cargo items and / or passenger luggage items to be accommodated in the cargo compartment of the housing 110. In another variation of this embodiment of the present invention, the areas for passenger luggage, including shelves, hangers, boxes, and other carrying means for accommodating passenger luggage items, may only be provided in the passenger compartment of the housing 110 of the payload further to the above variants of means for accommodating passengers in said passenger compartment. One skilled in the art would readily appreciate that cargo items and / or passenger luggage items may be at least partially secured or fixed also from the external side of the housing 110 using suitable fastening means known in the prior art (for example, using a dedicated enclosed-type attached equipment used in airplanes, cars, motorcycles, helicopters, bicycles, and the like). Of note, the above pilot cabin, passenger compartment and cargo compartment in the housing 110 of the payload may be configured in general analogously to the respective compartments of airplanes, helicopters, buses, cars, ships, power boats, or the like.In yet another embodiment of the present invention, the seat may be disposed in the pilot cabin in the internal space of the housing 110 of the payload which pilot cabin is separated by a partition from the remaining portion of the internal space of the housing 110 in which portion, in turn, on the bottom, ceiling and / or floor of the housing 110 there may be accommodated or fastened passengers (for example, in passenger seats), cargo items and passenger luggage items. Furthermore, an embodiment of the present invention is possible, wherein only the pilot and passengers may be accommodated in the internal space of the housing 110 of the payload; an embodiment of the present invention is possible, wherein only the pilot and cargo may be accommodated in the internal space of the housing 110; an embodiment of the present invention is possible, wherein only passengers and cargo may be accommodated in the internal space of the housing 110; an embodiment of the present invention is possible, wherein only one or more passengers may be accommodated in the internal space of the housing 110, one of whom may perform the function of a pilot; an embodiment of the present invention is possible, wherein only the pilot may be accommodated in the internal space of the housing 110 (for example, in the pilot's seat), who is simultaneously a passenger of the payload 100.The control elements (not shown) in the housing 110 of the payload which are part of the control panel enable the control of the payload 100 in a semi-automatic mode (i.e. a combination of performance of manual control by the pilot and performance of automatic control by the on-board systems using an autopilot responsible for at least the safety of travel or movement of the payload 100 through the air) such that the control elements of the control panel of the payload 100 may be used by the pilot being present in the seat and monitoring the instrument readings on the instrument panel of the control panel for manual input of at least one control command. Of note, the control elements of the control panel are communicatively coupled to the control device of the payload 100 so as to enable the presenting of each of the pilot's control commands to said control device of the payload 100, wherein some of said pilot's control commands may substantially substitute the respective control commands of the control device of the payload 100 generated by the control device of the payload 100 during the travel or movement of such payload 100 in automatic mode (i.e. in autopilot mode) through the air to a target region of space or a target location.In other embodiments of the present invention, the housing 110 of the payload may be formed from two or more individual cabins detachably docked or coupled to one another (for example, from two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten or more individual cabins) having one and the same type or different types.Of note, the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 detachably coupled or docked to the housing 110 of the payload may respond as an integral whole to control commands and / or control instructions being received from the control device of the payload 100. In particular, the operation of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 detachably docked to the housing 110 of the payload may be synchronized using the control device of the payload 100 (alternatively, using the control device of at least one or each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 and / or the control device of the payload 100). Furthermore, at least one or each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 detachably coupled or docked to the housing 110 of the payload may be electrically coupled to the payload 100 to form a single power supply circuit and to form a cluster power source (for example, the cluster power source may be formed from one or more integrated batteries included in at least one or each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200, and / or one or more integrated batteries mounted in or on the housing 110 of the payload), wherein the process of charging such cluster power source and the process of distributing power supply energy between the functional components of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 mounted in or on the housing 110 of the payload may be controlled by the control device of the payload 100 (alternatively, the control device of at least one or each of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 and / or the control device of the payload 100).Of note, the process of detachable coupling or detachable docking of one or more unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200 to the housing 110 of the payload may take place directly in the air in response to control commands and / or navigation commands presented by the control device of the payload 100 to said unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200, i.e., it may take place under the control of the control device of the payload 100.Of note, in any one of the embodiments of the present invention described herein, a reference to the use of the control device of the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 for controlling, monitoring or performing the described operation is not limiting, i.e. it will be appreciated by one skilled that, instead of the control device of the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200, there may be used the control device of the payload 100, the control device of other unmanned aircraft apparatus 200, an external control device or any suitable combination thereof. In particular, while detachable coupling or detachable docking of the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 to the housing 110 of the payload, the control of such docked unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 may be intercepted by the control device of the payload 100 or the control device of other unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 already (previously) coupled or docked to the housing 110 of the payload, or the control of such unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 may be carried out by means of the control device of this unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 in response to navigation commands and / or control commands of the control device of the payload 100. In one of the embodiments of the present invention, the housing 110 of the payload may comprise an (embedded) integrated power supply source (not shown) configured in the form of a battery, one or more rechargeable batteries, an internal combustion engine generator, a hydrogen engine generator, a generator based on one or more solar panels, or a generator based on any other suitable energy source known from the prior art, wherein said integrated power supply source may also be configured to be charged from an external power supply source (not shown) using a charging device (not shown) of a suitable type coupled to said external power supply source and configured to connect thereto said integrated power supply source of the housing 110. In particular, the integrated power supply source in the housing 110 of the payload may be coupled, by means of a power supply circuit thereof, to the control device of the payload 100 and any other functional components of the payload 100 described herein so as to enable the supply of power thereto or to enable them to be powered. In another embodiment of the present invention, the integrated power supply source of the housing 110 of the payload may be charged in a wireless manner using an external charging device (not shown) whose operation is based on the principle of electromagnetic induction which will be appreciated by one skilled in art. In another embodiment of the present invention, the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 docked to the docking module 300 and the functional components mounted in or on the housing 110 of the payload may have individual power supply circuits.In another embodiment of the present invention, the power supply circuit of the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 docked to the docking module 300 and one or more power supply circuits of the functional components mounted in or on the housing 110 of the payload may be electrically coupled to one another to form a combined power supply circuit and a combined charging circuit.In some other embodiment of the present invention, the housing 110 of the payload may be further provided with a limiting member configured to limit the movement of the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 docked to the docking module 300 with respect to the housing 110 of the payload upon actuation of said limiting member to prevent or eliminate the possibility of the unintentional withdrawal of the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 from the detachable interaction with the respective docking means of the payload 100, and, accordingly, the unintentional undocking of said unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 from the housing 110 of the payload. Of note, in this embodiment of the present invention, the limiting member may be actuated mechanically (for example, as a result of contact interaction with the housing 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatus or as a result of pressing the housing 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatus thereonto). For example, in this embodiment of the present invention, the limiting member may be configured in the form of a spring-loaded element. Alternatively, in this embodiment of the present invention, the limiting member may be configured controllable, and the control device of the payload 100 may be communicatively coupled to such controllable limiting member so as to enable actuation thereof. In one of the variations of such embodiment of the present invention, the limiting member, which may be further provided to the housing 110 of the payload, may be configured to be actuated upon introducing the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 into a detachable interaction with a respective one of the docking means of the payload 100. In another variation of this embodiment of the present invention, the limiting member, which may be further provided to the housing 110 of the payload, may be configured to be actuated by the control device of the payload 100 in response to readings from a contact sensor which may be communicatively coupled to the control device of the payload 100 and configured to detect or identify the docking of the unmanned aircraft apparatus 200 to the housing 110 of the payload. In yet another variation of such an embodiment of the present invention, the limiting member may be mounted on the housing 110 of the payload or on the docking module 300.In one embodiment of the present invention, the air transport system 1000 may comprise (i) a payload 100 whose housing 110 is provided with two or more docking means; and (ii) two or more unmanned aircraft apparatuses 200, the housing 210 of each of which is provided with two or more air propulsion units 220 and is configured to enter into detachable interaction with at least one of said docking means of the payload 100 so as to enable the arrangement of the air propulsion units 220 of said unmanned aircraft apparatuses in parallel planes on distinct sides of the housing 110 of the payload or with a predetermined angular offset around the perimeter of the housing 110 of the payload.In another embodiment of the present invention, at least one or each of the docking means of the payload 100 may be configured to enable movement of the housing 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatus with respect to the housing 110 of the payload upon entry of the housing 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatus into detachable interaction with said docking means of the payload 100. In one variation of this embodiment of the present invention, the housing 110 of the payload may be further provided with a limiting member (not shown) configured to limit movement of the housing 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatus with respect to the housing 110 of the payload upon entry of the housing 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatus into detachable interaction with the respective docking means of the payload 100. In another variation of this embodiment of the present invention, the limiting member, which may be further provided to the housing 110 of the payload, may be configured to be actuated upon introducing the housing 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatus into a detachable interaction with a respective docking means of the payload 100.In yet another embodiment of the present invention, the housing 110 of the payload may be further provided with two or more air propulsion units, wherein at least one of the propulsion units of the housing 110 of the payload may be configured to extend, unfold, or deploy from the housing 110 of the payload. In one variation of this embodiment of the present invention, the air propulsion units of the housing 110 of the payload or at least a portion thereof may form at least one functional pair of air propulsion units in which the air propulsion units are disposed on opposite sides of the housing 110 of the payload. In another variation of this embodiment of the present invention, at least one or each of the air propulsion units of the housing 110 of the payload may be mounted on one of the sides of the housing 110 of the payload so as to alter the location thereof on said side of the housing 110 of the payload. In yet another variation of this embodiment of the present invention, the air propulsion units of the housing 110 of the payload may be mounted so as to enable passage therebetween of the housing 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatus upon entry of said housing 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatus into detachable interaction with the respective docking means of the payload 100.In another embodiment of the present invention, the docking means of the payload 100 may be mounted each at a predetermined distance from the surface of the housing 110 of the payload such that they are disposed vertically at a distance from one another.In some other embodiment of the present invention, the docking means of the payload 100 may be mounted each at a predetermined distance from the surface of the housing 110 of the payload so as to alter the distance therebetween vertically.In some other embodiment of the present invention, the docking means of the payload 100 may be mounted on a vertical post (not shown) extending from the housing 110 of the payload, and may be disposed at a distance from one another along the length of said vertical post.In other embodiments of the present invention, the housing 110 of the payload may be provided with two air propulsion units (not shown) provided on opposite sides of the housing 110 of the payload, and the docking means of the payload 100 may be mounted on the housing 110 of the payload so as to enable the placement of the air propulsion units of the housing 110 of the payload and the air propulsion units 220 of the housing of the unmanned aircraft apparatus in the same plane on distinct sides of the housing 110 of the payload or with a predetermined angular offset along the perimeter of the housing 110 of the payload upon introducing said housing 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatus into detachable interaction with said docking means of the payload 100. In one variation of such embodiments of the present invention, the side of the housing 110 of the payload, on which side there are mounted the docking means of the payload 100, may be adjacent to the opposite sides of the housing 110 of the payload, on which opposite sides there are provided the air propulsion units of the payload 100.In other embodiments of the present invention, the housing 110 of the payload may be provided with two air propulsion units (not shown) provided on opposite sides of the housing 110 of the payload, and the docking means of the payload 100 may be mounted on the housing 110 of the payload so as to enable the introduction of the housing 210 of the unmanned aircraft apparatus into detachable interaction with said docking means of the payload 100 on one of said opposite sides of the housing 110 of the payload or on the side of the housing 110 of the payload which side is adjacent to said opposite sides of the housing 110 of the payload.The provided illustrative embodiments of the present invention, examples and description serve only to facilitate understanding of the principles of the claimed invention and are not limiting. Other possible embodiments of the present invention or modifications or improvements to the above embodiments of the present invention will suggest themselves to one skilled in the art after reading the above description. The scope of the present invention is limited only by the appended claims.  [ABSTRACT]The present invention relates to a payload comprising a housing provided with two or more docking means mounted on one and the same side of the housing of the payload so as to enter into detachable interaction with the housings of unmanned aircraft apparatuses so as to enable the arrangement of the air propulsion units of said unmanned aircraft apparatuses in parallel planes on distinct sides of the housing of the payload or with a predetermined angular offset around the perimeter of the housing of the payload. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a transport system comprising two or more unmanned aircraft apparatuses and the provided embodiment of the payload. 2 independent claims, 3 figures.  [Fig. 1]  [Fig. 2] [Fig. 3]               

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1. An air transport system comprising: a payload whose housing is provided with two or more docking means mounted on one and the same side of the housing of the payload so as to enter into detachable interaction with the housings of unmanned aircraft apparatuses so as to enable arrangement of the air propulsion units of said unmanned aircraft apparatuses in parallel planes with a predetermined angular offset around the perimeter of the housing of the payload two or more unmanned aircraft apparatuses, the housing of each of which is provided with two or more air propulsion units, wherein the housing has the shape of a U-shaped frame, or a C-shaped frame, or an H-shaped frame, whose structural elements are coupled to one another so as to form a cavity or hollow space between said structural elements of the housing, wherein the air propulsion units are provided to parallelly disposed structural elements of the housing, which are coupled to one another by a transversely disposed structural element of the housing in the form of a crossbar, and the housing of each unmanned aircraft apparatus is configured to enter into detachable interaction with at least one of said docking means of the payload so as to enable arrangement of the air propulsion units of said unmanned aircraft apparatuses in parallel planes with a predetermined angular offset around the perimeter of the housing of the payload, and arrangement of the payload in the cavity between said structural elements of the frame of the housing of the unmanned aircraft apparatus, wherein the air flows generated by the air propulsion units of distinct unmanned aircraft apparatuses do not intersect.  2. The air transport system according to claim 1, wherein each of the at least two docking means of the payload is formed by two adjacent docking plates secured to one another such that they are disposed generally parallel to one another and are present at a predetermined distance from one another, which distance is suitable for passage therebetween of the parallelly disposed structural elements of the housing of one of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses of the air transport system. 3. The air transport system according to claim 1, wherein the docking means mounted on one and the same side of the housing of the payload are configured to enable entry of the housings of the unmanned aircraft apparatuses into detachable interaction with the respective docking means of the payload with a predetermined angular offset in a crisscross manner, wherein the air flows generated by the air propulsion units of distinct unmanned aircraft apparatuses do not intersect. 4. The air transport system according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said docking means of the payload is configured to enable movement of the housing of the unmanned aircraft apparatus with respect to the housing of the payload upon entry of the housing of the unmanned aircraft apparatus into detachable interaction with said at least one docking means. 5. The air transport system according to claim 4, wherein the housing of the payload is further provided with a limiting member configured to limit the movement of the housing of the unmanned aircraft apparatus with respect to the housing of the payload. 6. The air transport system according to claim 5, wherein said limiting member is configured to be actuated upon entry of the housing of the unmanned aircraft apparatus into detachable interaction with said at least one docking means. 7. The air transport system according to claim 1, wherein the housing of the payload is further provided with two or more air propulsion units. 8. The air transport system according to claim 7, wherein at least one of the air propulsion units of the housing of the payload is configured to extend, unfold or deploy from the housing of the payload. 9. The air transport system according to any one of claims 7-8, wherein the air propulsion units of the housing of the payload form at least one functional pair of air propulsion units, wherein the air propulsion units are disposed on opposite sides of the housing of the payload. 10. The air transport system according to claim 7, wherein at least one of the air propulsion units of the housing of the payload is mounted on one of the sides of the housing of the payload so as to alter the location thereof on said side of the housing of the payload. 11. The air transport system according to claim 7, wherein the air propulsion units of the housing of the payload are mounted so as to enable passage therebetween of the housing of the unmanned aircraft apparatus upon entry of the housing of said unmanned aircraft apparatus into detachable interaction with said at least one docking means. 12. The air transport system according to claim 1, wherein said docking means of the payload are mounted each at a predetermined distance from the surface of the housing of the payload such that they are disposed vertically at a distance from one another. 13. The air transport system according to claim 1, wherein said docking means of the payload are mounted each at a predetermined distance from the surface of the housing of the payload so as to alter the distance therebetween vertically. 14. The air transport system according to claim 1, wherein said docking means of the payload are mounted on a vertical post extending from the housing of the payload, and are disposed at a distance from one another along the length of the vertical post. 15. The air transport system according to claim 1, wherein the housing of the payload is provided with two air propulsion units provided on opposite sides of the housing of the payload, and said docking means are mounted on the housing of the payload so as to enable the arrangement of the air propulsion units of the housing of the payload and the air propulsion units of the housing of the unmanned aircraft apparatus in a single plane on distinct sides of the housing of the payload or with a predetermined angular offset around the perimeter of the housing of the payload upon introducing said housing of the unmanned aircraft apparatus into detachable interaction with said docking means. 16. The air transport system according to claim 15, wherein the side of the housing of the payload on which there are mounted said docking means of the payload is adjacent to said opposite sides of the housing of the payload. 17. The air transport system according to claim 1, wherein the housing of the payload is provided with two air propulsion units provided on opposite sides of the housing of the payload, and said docking means of the payload are mounted on the housing of the payload so as to enable introduction of the housing of the unmanned aircraft apparatus into detachable interaction with said docking means of the payload on one of said opposite sides of the housing of the payload, or on the side of the housing of the payload which is adjacent to said opposite sides of the housing of the payload.  

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