← Back to Squawk list

Air Force Tests Contraption That Can Turn Any Plane Into a Robot Plane

4년 전 제출됨

Scientists say new ROBOpilot completed a two-hour test flight, essentially turning a manned plane into a drone. (www.nextgov.com) 기타...

ToddBaldwin3

17 멤버 코멘트

Sort type: [Top] [Newest]

Richard Fox 4년 전 5

I've officially given up the fight for human pilot jobs. They have come too far with this and the technology is there. Is it morally right? No. Will it line someone's pockets? Yes. Therefore, it will go ahead.

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•Report

Stefan Sobol 4년 전 3

What exactly is not "morally right" about it?

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•모•Report

Richard Fox 4년 전 2

Replacing hundreds-of-thousands of human jobs for the sake of some nerd's 'dream to create THEIR utopia where people are lazy and don't have to communicate with each other'. e.g. no taxi driver to talk to...

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•모•Report

Stephane Renaud 4년 전 2

Make me think of the movie Airplane! with the inflatable pilot

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•Report

Lancairguy 4년 전 2

First thing that I believe will happen is the one person cockpit. If the pilot needs a restroom break an ACARS message sent to the ground will result in the aircraft being remotely monitored/flown until the pilot returns and confirms via ACARS that he/she is back on deck. If another German wings event or Malaysian 370 event occurs the day this will happen will move forward significantly. Technology for this is already available.

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•Report

Stefan Sobol 4년 전 2

Seems to take up a lot of space in the plane and require removing a lot of the cabin interior. Might work ok on large aircraft, but on small planes it would reduce the utility of the aircraft if all the interior space and useful load is taken up by the "pilot".

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•Report

jrsphoto 4년 전 1

Yeah, the fact that it was made removable complicates the design significantly. Taking something like a Cessna and making it remotely controllable is not that technically challenging by itself. Lots of off the shelf tech to make that happen. But making it easily removable would be much harder

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•모•Report

David Stark 4년 전 1

What could possibly go wrong?

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•Report

jrsphoto 4년 전 1

A “Contraption”. Lol. Is this the 1920’s?

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•Report

Robert Cowling 4년 전 1

Gosh, sign me up to fly in a plane where the pilot has no vested interest in keeping the plane in the air. NOT!!!

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•Report

airuphere 4년 전 0

Sure the robot has no consciousness , but the people making it and controlling it sure do. And if nothing else $$$ says to keep in air

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•모•Report

nightflyer182 4년 전 -1

So many problems with this concept. The biggest one is that pilotless aircraft will never, EVER, make its way in to commercial aviation...NEVER!!!

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•Report

nightflyer182 4년 전 2

I meant pax.....

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•모•Report

airuphere 4년 전 1

Pilotless, No. As airbus said One Pilot in Plane and a first officer on ground monitoring multiple flights in a console will be the first step, but that’s a long way off. For Passengers.
As for Cargo (also commercial) it will be the first to be pilotless at some point. All manuf. have hinted it.. never say never..

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•모•Report

garritt 4년 전 0

so the remote control can land safely in the Hudson ...DUH !!

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•모•Report

airuphere 4년 전 1

Not what I said. Pilotless Passenger Aircraft.. won’t happen.. cargo eventually.. military.. already there. But never say never. They’ll find find a way to have a human avail for emergency.. or maybe AI duhduhduh

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•모•Report

btweston 4년 전 0

RAWR!!!

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•모•Report

Air Force Tests Contraption That Can Turn Any Plane Into a Robot Plane

17 멤버 코멘트

Sort type: [Top] [Newest]

로그인