Sentences with word «pilotless»

Discussing the possibility of pilotless planes, you offer a graph showing that «the majority of fatal accidents are down to...

Paul Marks's excellent article on pilotless aircraft inevitably recalls the famous joke told to the Royal Aeronautical Society by the late, great Peter Masefield.

New Scientist has acclaimed the idea of pilotless planes (9 August, p 30).

Paul Marks's excellent article on pilotless aircraft inevitably recalls the famous joke told to the Royal Aeronautical Society by the...

UBS researchers admit cargo planes would be more likely than commercial airlines to try pilotless flights.

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.

For this reason, pilotless cargo aircraft may happen more swiftly than for passengers,» the report concluded.

UBS estimates the industry could save $ 35 billion and pass the savings along to passengers through lower fares if airlines could operate pilotless planes.

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.

An experimental pilotless flying bomb.

or we need to move forward with such technology as pilotless and small dirigibles working GIS - based mapping grids around the clock.

Ehang calls it an autonomous aerial vehicle, I prefer personal pilotless helicopter, but if you need to explain what it is to anyone, just say it's a driverless car for the sky.

Even though autonomous flying taxis are years away, but there's no denying to the fact that a lot of companies have shown interest to make pilotless air travel a reality.

We may not yet be at the point where driverless cars become a standard fixture on our roads, but a pilot scheme (or should that be «pilotless scheme?»)

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...

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

We have pilotless drones.

Discussing the possibility of pilotless planes, you offer a graph showing that «the majority of fatal accidents are down to humans» (9 August, p 30).

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

«Perhaps surprisingly, half the respondents said they would not buy the pilotless ticket even if it was cheaper,» said UBS Evidence Lab report.

Considering every person has their price where something is so cheap they can't pass up the offer, UBS asked consumers how much cheaper a pilotless flight ticket would need to be for them to get on board without a crew in the cockpit.

Pilotless planes will routinely fly passengers by 2030.

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.

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