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How UAVs Will Change Aviation
Aviation Week and Space Technology ^
| 6/7/2010
| David Esler
Posted on 06/08/2010 11:30:56 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
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posted on
06/08/2010 11:32:48 PM PDT
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
( "Fortes fortuna adiuvat"-Fortune Favors the Strong)
To: sonofstrangelove
"It doesn't matter whether a pilot is on board. Think about that. What does it enable?" Which is why presidents, prime ministers, and multi-national CEOs will be the very first to dump their human pilots.
Right?
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posted on
06/08/2010 11:34:28 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
To: Jet Jaguar
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posted on
06/08/2010 11:35:51 PM PDT
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
( "Fortes fortuna adiuvat"-Fortune Favors the Strong)
To: sonofstrangelove
My dad has always said that eventually there will be a dog and a man in the cockpit. The man to feed the dog and make the pax happy, and the dog to keep the man away from the controls.
Aircraft can and have and will continue to fly themselves but as an A&P I see way to many software transients that we have to chase down to ever want to trust a commercial pax carrying aircraft to computers.
The human brain is still the best processor out there.
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posted on
06/08/2010 11:35:55 PM PDT
by
lowflyn
(He'll crack before we do.)
To: sonofstrangelove
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posted on
06/08/2010 11:37:20 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(*)
To: sonofstrangelove
This is EXACTLY how Skynet started.
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posted on
06/08/2010 11:37:25 PM PDT
by
Anvilhead
(Dammit Jim, I'm an American not an American't.)
To: Talisker
The best safety device on any aircraft is a well trained pilot.
To: lowflyn
Back when skyjacking became a big scare again (shortly following after the 9/11 skyjackings/bombings) there was talk about having the capability of seizing control of a jet liner on radio command from the ground in case of emergency. With better security provisions for the cockpit now the standard, this issue seems to have become moot. It would be nice, I suppose, for a craft to be able to complete its own flight if the pilot and copilot are both taken ill. (”Hello passengers, this is your new captain R2D2, I have just taken over command of this flight as your crew appears to be incapacitated. Don’t worry, we specially certified robots have never yet failed to land a craft safely.”)
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posted on
06/08/2010 11:49:26 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: sonofstrangelove
So, who gets to write the code?
Microsoft?
Apple?
Google?
Lockheed-Martin.
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posted on
06/08/2010 11:52:29 PM PDT
by
Blueflag
(Res ipsa loquitur)
To: lowflyn
You know, when you use industry specific jargon without defining it to your readers, you lose them at the gate.
What the hell is a “pax”?
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posted on
06/08/2010 11:52:33 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Blueflag
Naw, it will be open source like Linux
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posted on
06/08/2010 11:54:58 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
Lets see a UAV on auto handle a bird strike and gently belly land in the Hudson river...
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posted on
06/09/2010 12:06:03 AM PDT
by
Crim
(The Obama Doctrine : A doctrine based on complete ignorance,applied with extreme incompitence..)
To: sonofstrangelove
I firmly believe that we are quickly approaching the time where we look at manned military aircraft the way the Sopwith Camel was viewed during WWII.
I sort of already do.
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posted on
06/09/2010 12:06:28 AM PDT
by
RobRoy
(The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
To: Windflier
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posted on
06/09/2010 12:08:37 AM PDT
by
lowflyn
(He'll crack before we do.)
To: sonofstrangelove
Are airplane pilots destined for the same fate as flight navigators and engineers?Well, they still have train crews, don't they? They're gonna have to go first, I would think.
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posted on
06/09/2010 12:18:28 AM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: lowflyn
"Pax" =
Sorry passengers. ?
Alrighty. Strange term, but I'll do my best to try and remember it.
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posted on
06/09/2010 12:19:57 AM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Windflier
ha ha ha
That is good Pax = passengers
I am sure it also = sorry passengers in some cases.
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posted on
06/09/2010 12:30:27 AM PDT
by
lowflyn
(He'll crack before we do.)
To: sonofstrangelove
Maybe they can call the black box the “Sully?”
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posted on
06/09/2010 1:09:12 AM PDT
by
ken5050
(Save the Earth..It's the only planet with chocolate!!!)
To: Crim
Yep. Software can only be as good as the coders and compilers are at understanding every environment the aircraft will ever be exposed to. Unfortunately, nature gets to play a hand too.
TC
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