Boeing's next aircraft pilotless
11-05-2022 | 12:46 PM
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From: Enoch Powell Enthusiast
Airplanes are a mature technology.
Magic materials (light, strong, flexible, etc) and hyper efficient power plants that improve operating costs by 1 or 2% are probably a better bet than removing a couple of bozos at the front end who:
1. Aren’t that expensive in the grand scheme of things
2. Are extremely useful to blame when things go sideways (to be fair, it sometimes is pilot error)
3.Occasionally do something darned useful.
Magic materials (light, strong, flexible, etc) and hyper efficient power plants that improve operating costs by 1 or 2% are probably a better bet than removing a couple of bozos at the front end who:
1. Aren’t that expensive in the grand scheme of things
2. Are extremely useful to blame when things go sideways (to be fair, it sometimes is pilot error)
3.Occasionally do something darned useful.
Last edited by DeltaboundRedux; 11-05-2022 at 01:08 PM.
11-09-2022 | 12:08 PM
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From: Short Bus FO
If you're talking 737, that's 5 decades plus. It entered airline service in 1968.
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