pilotless

Eventually they'll make a pilotless version the way they have pilotless F-16s.

The early successes of pilotless aircraft led to the development of radio controlled pilotless target aircraft in Britain and the US in the 1930s.

Replacing all airplanes with pilotless planes is likely as a bad plan as replacing all car with driverless cars.

To some extent however most of the changes since the 60's have been evolutionary rather than revolutionary, pilotless aircraft are revolutionary.

This pilotless planes discussion is something that comes up all the time, and it never fails to raise my blood pressure.

By pilotless, I mean without a person inside it.

> They're both radio-controlled pilotless flying machines Are you sure the 'drone' in the BBC article pilotless?

They're both radio-controlled pilotless flying machines, why wouldn't they both be called drones?

And, of course, there's also the fact that pilotless aviation can't actually solve all the edge and corner cases of piloted aviation, but only some of them.

Eventually, I don't doubt, we would achieve the same excellent safety record with pilotless aircraft that we see right now with piloted ones.

In the skunks they are doing a pilotless version.

I would like to see a pilotless plane decide what to do when the landing gear fails and an emergency landing needs to be made.

Inserting a "pilotless control system" into a previously manned fighter does nothing to improve its performance, and degrades it in many ways (i.e.

This makes your argument another case of "let's assume we have strong AI; then pilotless aviation is easy-peasy." In other words, one of your unstated assumptions is still firmly in the realm of science fiction.

Through some convoluted path, the name of "Queen Bee" is said to have led to the use of the term "drone" for pilotless aircraft, particularly when they are radio-controlled.[7] However during this period the U.

“One expert I spoke with estimated that an integrated bundle of 12-15 PlayStations could provide enough computer power to control an Iraqi unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV — a pilotless aircraft.” Just hilarious.

Pilotless aviation won't address all of these cases.