The European Airbus Consortium announced to day it will release the first totally unmanned commercial aircraft. The new A-400 will taxi, take-off, fly the route and land itself, all without human interaction. They also announced there will be no flight attendants, just a vast assembly of coin operated food dispensing devices. Airbus executives say they decided to go ahead with this controversial aircraft when it became apparent no rational pilots or flight attendants would accept assignments on the recent fly-by-wire aircraft.
