Word: pilotless
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...oxygen supplies, ejection seats, fire-suppression systems and armor aren't needed. The nimbleness and speed of today's fighters aren't limited by weak engines or fuselage stress limits but by the human body's inability to withstand high G-forces, a problem that would disappear in a pilotless plane...
...Leaving the Mojave Desert, the crew will head for U.S. Navy test waters in the Pacific. On order, they will release a Pegasus missile from under their right wing and send it roaring up into the sky. At 31 km, more than double civil aviation altitude, a black, windowless, pilotless sliver of finned metal shaped like a flattened dart will separate from the Pegasus' nose and scream down into the ocean. NASA estimates the X-43 will reach a cruising speed of Mach 7, seven times the speed of sound, or 2 km per second, in the few moments before...
Close readers of Notebook will recall that last year a mistaken "crash command" sent a $45 million GLOBAL HAWK pilotless aircraft crashing into the desert. Last week the Air Force detailed another Global Hawk spy-drone embarrassment. This one happened on the ground...
...idea for the guide came to David Borgenicht, 31, a Philadelphia writer, as he lay awake one night pondering exactly how to go about landing a pilotless plane. (Such conundrums plague Borgenicht. One of his earlier works is The Little Book of Stupid Questions.) He went looking for a partner in neurosis and found Joshua Piven, 28. The two have much in common: both are Philadelphians who went to the University of Pennsylvania, and both survived a formative experience with crime. A decade ago, shortly after moving from Utah to Philadelphia, the amiable Borgenicht was conned...