Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Wow, aircraft technology this passenger "no need" pilots

Wow, aircraft technology this passenger "no need" pilots
Aircraft without pilots
LONDON - Advanced technology the aircraft is currently allows to carry passengers without being controlled manually by the pilot on the plane. As happened in Lancashire, England, airplanes without pilots succeed to transport crew up to travel as far as 800 kilometers.

Aircraft without a pilots is still programmed and monitored on an ongoing basis by a pilot who are in land. This flight starts from Wartnon in Lancashire towards Inverness in Scotland by British Aerospace Jetstream.

Aerospace Jetstream from this British, creating a new historical milestone which was also conducted by members of Astraea. Astraea is a research consortium with a £ 62 million fund to create technologies that allow civilian aircraft to various their airspace with an unmanned aircraft (drones).

Although the aircraft was flown without a pilots who are in plane, but a series of testing and preparation before gliding keep to be implemented. Pilots in the land control handle when the aircraft airborne up to prepared to do landing.

Aircraft "without" this pilots, using propeller power and has a capacity of 19 passengers. this plane is not just on autopilot, keep also equipped with detection technology and the ability to avoid, so that the plane would not hit another plane in the air.

To test the system, false object has been placed, in which this aircraft is able to avoid through the help of a computer. "Because we were in the area of air together, all the maneuvers we test using synthetic targets. Every change route airlines submitted to the airlines pilots land by air traffic control," said Lambert doping-Hepenstal, from BAE Systems, Program Director of the Astraea.

Jim Scanlan, one of the designers unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was first in the world to use 3D printing machines at the University of Southampton, England revealed that this aircraft technology can be applied more widely for years to come. "It's good to see progress in the UK, particularly with the United States is hoping to open its airspace for UAVs in 2015," said Jim.

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