Air to air refueling where the refueling is fast charging lithium batteries and the tanker is formation of drones not KC-135 full of jet fuel. Probably not the

Air to air refueling where the refueling is fast charging lithium batteries and the tanker is formation of drones not KC-135 full of jet fuel. Probably not the craziest idea ever. While the "refueling drones" are circling overhead waiting to charge up a transport jet, may as well use them as five mile high wifi access points for internet, and divebomb amazon deliveries. I mean they're up there, may as well make use of them when they aren't charging jets. Think of the FAA madness WRT flight plans and mandatory minimum "fuel" and alternatives/diverts. The paperwork alone for aerial refueling on plain old passenger service is likely to get weird. Meanwhile if solar panels get cheap and durable enough, or safe enough in a crash to plow thru, charge the drones off panels laying around the airfield. In theory you could have 100% solar powered high speed aircraft transportation using this weird system. Note that you can cross the ocean if you have a dense enough fleet of charger drones. By dense "enough" I have no idea what to say here. You need enough battery power to get "up there" and to cruise between drone hookups (which might only be a couple seconds if the drone comes along with you, or if you have dual charging ports I guess that means zero...) Note that every airframe full of people requiring 2 or 3 smaller airframes full of batteries will be an interesting capital cost to work around.