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Sometimes. Researchers at the ETH Zurich recognize that different tasks call for different aircraft, and with that in mind they've designed the Distributed Flight Array, a flying platform consisting of multiple small autonomous single rotor aircraft that can dock with one another to create a larger, more powerful aircraft. The DFA, developed by ETH Zurich's Institute for Dynamics Systems and Control, consists of multiple fixed propellor aircraft, each with its own sensors and flight control system. Individually, the components fly somewhat erratically, but joined together they become a larger sensor-based flight platform, capable of maintaining level flight by rapidly sharing data between them.
When docked together, if something disturbs the array's level flight each individual rotor can compensate appropriately to bring the system back into balance.