Unmanned F-16 takes off
04-04-2015, 01:47 PM
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Unmanned F-16 takes off
See F-16 fighter jet fly without a pilot
See F-16 fighter jet fly without a pilot - CNN Video
Looks like we are getting closer to unmanned jets throughout all aviation. It will interesting to see an unmanned airliner. So glad I'm on the training side of the map.
See F-16 fighter jet fly without a pilot - CNN Video
Looks like we are getting closer to unmanned jets throughout all aviation. It will interesting to see an unmanned airliner. So glad I'm on the training side of the map.
04-04-2015, 02:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Past V1
See F-16 fighter jet fly without a pilot
See F-16 fighter jet fly without a pilot - CNN Video
Looks like we are getting closer to unmanned jets throughout all aviation. It will interesting to see an unmanned airliner. So glad I'm on the training side of the map.
See F-16 fighter jet fly without a pilot - CNN Video
Looks like we are getting closer to unmanned jets throughout all aviation. It will interesting to see an unmanned airliner. So glad I'm on the training side of the map.
04-04-2015, 02:51 PM
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I got to work on a few of the "splash" engines for the QF-16 program. Old engines that aren't in service anymore. Pretty cool to see them in action. They put the splash engines in only for the remote part of the test. Better/newer engines when they have a pilot on board.
04-04-2015, 03:31 PM
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Originally Posted by BoilerUP
Haven't old fighters been turned into "drone" targets for decades now?
Nothing to see here, move along.
04-04-2015, 05:22 PM
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Originally Posted by F15Cricket
I know they were using unmanned QF-100s when I was at Holloman in ... 1990!
IIRC, there were also B17's laden with explosives to test the feasibility of radio controlled bombers that simply crash into the target area.
04-04-2015, 07:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Csy Mon
Wow, radio controlled water landings back then....
Sully, who needs Sully? A dude in a cubicle at a desk can have a "miracle on the Hudson".
And hey, 70+ years later and we're STILL crashing drones.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aphrodite
04-04-2015, 08:14 PM
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Originally Posted by 2loud
I'm sure this is higher technology and it ain't the first pilotless jet flight; they've been flying pilotless F-4s in the past, I believe, out of Mojave airport.
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