Air Force to Field Autonomous Cessna Caravan

[fire4effect]

Air Force to Field Autonomous Cessna Caravan

Supposedly the system will eventually be airframe agnostic.

Guess those side jobs flying Caravans for FEDEX to the Carribean days are numbered. 

[Inertia17]

13 hours ago, fire4effect said:

Guess those side jobs flying Caravans for FEDEX to the Carribean days are numbered. 

If any other Air Force acquisition is an indicator, that number is fairly high.

[Biff_T]

Somehow, they'll still manage to require a navigator and a loadmaster for operational missions.  

Edited September 2 by Biff_T
Words are hard

[Swizzle]

5 hours ago, Inertia17 said:

If any other Air Force acquisition is an indicator, that number is fairly high.

Last photo tile should caveat *10-20 years ago*

[fire4effect]

8 hours ago, Inertia17 said:

If any other Air Force acquisition is an indicator, that number is fairly high.

One hard part imho will be mixing with manned aircraft at un-towered and minimal equipped ATC facilities at many 3rd world airports

[Standby]

4 hours ago, fire4effect said:

One hard part imho will be mixing with manned aircraft at un-towered and minimal equipped ATC facilities at many 3rd world airports

“Station calling Djibouti???!!?”

[dream big]

3 hours ago, Standby said:

“Station calling Djibouti???!!?”

“Clearance is as follows, Djibouti Djibouti!”

“Line up and take off behind the A330”

[Standby]

22 hours ago, dream big said:

“Clearance is as follows, Djibouti Djibouti!”

“Line up and take off behind the A330”

They could make a movie about that airport and all of the shenanigans. Too many quotable quotes to count. 

[fire4effect]

Joby Logs 7,000 Autonomous Miles in Military Exercise

More on the subject. I admit I didn't know about this.