Word: pilotless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PILOTLESS LANDING systems are in sight for nation's commercial and military aircraft. New robot system developed by Bell Aircraft Corp. electronically "locks in" plane's controls in the air, uses radio-radar-computer ground unit to ease in craft for three-point landing. Developed for Navy, system has gone through 1,200 successful test landings and Bell says it will make possible entirely automatic landings in any weather...
...from its launching platform at Florida's Patrick Air Force base one day last week swooshed a hot U.S. challenger in the East-West missiles race-the Snark,* a huge (74 ft. long, 7 tons), turbojet-propelled, surface-to-surface guided missile, i.e., a winged pilotless bomber, with speeds up to 600 m.p.h. and intercontinental range (at least 5,000 miles). Radar-checked and ground-controlled, it whizzed southeast down the Caribbean along the 5,000-mile U.S. test range that extends -by agreement with Britain-from Florida to Ascension Island in the South Atlantic. Its flight plan...
...R.A.A.F., then sent up a couple of piston-engined Sea Fury fighters, piloted by British veterans. Seven miles out to sea, Lieut. Peter McNay gave the Auster the full force of his 20-mm. guns. The tiny plane shook, burst into flames and slowly spiraled into the sea. Its pilotless flight had lasted 2¾hours...
This summer the Air Force will evaluate a new jet target, the Ryan Firebee, which it hopes will help solve the problem. The Firebee is an ugly little pilotless airplane, built like a potbellied bug with swept-back wings. It is only 17 ft. 3 in. long, and its wing span is 11 ft. 2 in. But its belly contains a real jet engine with 1,000 Ibs. of thrust, which gives it maximum speed at sea level of 610 m.p.h. At 40,000 ft. it can fly for an hour and 20 minutes at 575 m.p.h. This...
...Tests on the Bomarc, a long-range pilotless interceptor, "are very encouraging...