Super Hornet Demonstrates Unpiloted Approaches

Credit: Boeing
Researchers are analyzing data from the first “hands-off” live-fly operations around an aircraft carrier—information that could lead to a specially modified F/A-18F Super Hornet landing on a ship without a pilot touching the controls in as little as two years. A pair of Boeing test pilots just...

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