Sentences with phrase «in pilotless»

For example, $ 2,000 is riding on the prediction «By 2030, commercial passengers will routinely fly in pilotless planes.»

The war in Afghanistan has exposed a new level of U.S. expertise in pilotless aircraft.

Not exact matches

UBS commissioned the survey in June and found just 17 percent would be willing to fly on a pilotless plane.

Despite playing such a pivotal role in the counterterrorism strategy of the U.S., there's a surprising lack of public information about drones — pilotless military aircrafts that are controlled autonomously by computers or remote pilots.

In 2000, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a Pentagon agency best known for helping invent the Internet, radar - evading stealth aircraft, and pilotless drones, began funding research into exoskeletons that could improve combat performance.

Yet despite these efforts, in the future we will no longer have the luxury of assuming that the skies above us are free of pilotless machines.

Moonraker, the worst film in the series, opened with a spectacular skydiving sequence that will probably never be bettered; GoldenEye's opening, in which Bond sailed after, and caught, a pilotless plane, was at least a worthy contender.

With these terrifying words, 22 of Hollywood's greatest stars find themselves aboard a pilotless jumbo jet headed on a collision course with destruction in the nerve chilling sequel to the greatest disaster movie ever made.