DragonFly is designed to enable automatic landings in bad weather, handle in-flight emergencies, and ease pilots' workload while taxiing around complicated airports.
— shoutout to Star Wars fans everywhere — is working on gate-to-gate autonomous cargo flights using modified Cessna Grand Caravans remotely overseen by staffers on the ground.a contract to work alongside the Federal Aviation Administration , NASA and others to research how to best integrate autonomous aircraft into complex airspace.to sell 20 remotely flown cargo planes to Ameriflight, which flies packages for UPS, FedEx and others.
Instead, the idea is that increased automation could lead the FAA to relax a rule requiring two pilots for many commercial flights. But pilots are pushing back against even that — in part over safety fears, and in part because of the potential risk to their livelihoods. "A minimum two-person flight crew is necessary to manage the flight deck workload and protect against the potential incapacitation of one pilot," reads anAirlines love anything that saves them money — and having to pay one fewer pilot for every flight would do exactly that.
Meanwhile, others predict that the rise of autonomous flight technology will create all manner of new jobs to support such systems, as Joann hasAs Xwing's and Natilus' progress shows, it's likely that the next generation of autonomous systems will first prove their mettle in cargo operations before coming to passenger aircraft.Solving the technological hurdles of autonomous flight is one thing.
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