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The present invention concerns a method of manoeuvring a vertical take-off and landing, unmanned aerial drone (100) comprising at least an aerodynamic surface (101), wherein, during a flight of the drone, the aerodynamic surface generates lift and/or drag and an aerodynamic surface area is dynamically varied to compensate for adverse wind currents and/or to use said wind currents and/or to use an effective airspeed velocity as an assistance in manoeuvring the drone flight, said aerodynamic surface area variations allowing to reduce an energy consumption of the drone.
Alcherio Martinoli, Lucas Cédric Wälti