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Look, no pilot!
Posted by Bridget in Physics & Maths
The Global Hawk is a robotic plane that can fly autonomously to altitudes above 20 000 m - twice as high as a commercial airliner - and more than 17 000 km – half the circumference of Earth. Operators pre-program a flight path, and then the plane flies itself for as long as 30 hours, staying in contact through satellite and line-of-sight communications to the ground control station at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Centre in California’s Mojave Desert. (Image: NASA/Tony Landis)
Source: NASA
