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Remember when FedEx converted their DC-10's and removed the flight engineer? And that was years ago.
It took them 26 years to do. (DC10 first flight in 1970 and MD10 in 1996).
Or 20 years, the R&D for DC10 replacement was started in 1976.
It takes 10+ years to develop a traditional airliner. And there's nothing in public pipeline with 1 pilot. Pretty hard to see a 1 pilot plane in 121 ops in 10 years. Maybe 20, and that's for cargo only.