'Magic Carpet' Will Make Landing On An Aircraft Carrier So Much Easier

Jalopnik ^ | Terrell Jermaine Starr

[VTenigma]

And the proof of that theory are drivers these days. Very few have acute car handling skills.

[teeman8r]

Any body can land a plane.

[John Milner]

Any place it goes is right
Goes far, flies near, to the stars away from here

[itsahoot]

The pilot soon will be a waste of resources.

US Navy tests pilotless planes - BT

[itsahoot]

MAGIC CARPET is too hard to remember.

I saw what you did there.

[itsahoot]

How long before folks can not remember how to drive?

They will likely remember how long after they are not allowed.

[Orbiter]

Landing an airplane is easy: all you have to do is run out of airspeed and altitude at the same time -- preferably at an airport if you want to avoid headlining the six o'clock news. Knowing how is something else all together.

[Renkluaf]

Surprised no one has come up with a magnetic solution using the repelling forces of same polarity.

[Chode]

[Bratch]

[Ronin]

Fine and dandy, but what if the system conks out as they are always apt to do at inopportune times? Methinks the Navy better make dang sure that each of those fearless Naval Aviators know how to do it the old fashioned way and keep in practice.

[Oztrich Boy]

“...someone really wanted our initials to spell out S.H.I.E.L.D”

[Telepathic Intruder]

By the way, did you know that the first person to successfully land his plane on an aircraft carrier was killed on his second attempt? An interesting historical fact. They were originally built to launch aircraft, not to land them.

[itsahoot]

They were originally built to launch aircraft, not to land them.

Yep I knew that. We have came a long way from Jimmy Doolittle's one way bombing run on Japan.