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Steve Scott

Monday, December 11th, 2006

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Boeing Boosts Pilotless Aircraft Whenever some heretic neophyte innocently asks on a pilot forum, "Why haven't airliners been automated and pilots dispensed with?", he can be guaranteed a rabid response from the aviators. Inundated with harrumphs, the questioner will be dismissed with the usual derogatory comments about his patently oblivious ignorance of the factors involved. However, that scenario changed somewhat last week when no less than Boeing did the patently unobvious. It received a patent application approval covering every professional…

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