UK defence corporation BAE Systems is preparing to run the first unmanned flight through UK civil airspace, to demonstrate that UAVs could be safely flown over Britain.
The firm is using a modified BAE Jetstream 31 (nicknamed "The Flying Test Bed") -- a small twin-turboprop airliner with 18 seats. It will have pilots on-board, but they can take their hands off the controls and hand it over to the racks of computers and control systems in the aircraft's rear.
By: Mark Brown, Edited by: Duncan Geere
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-06/18/bae-unmanned-tests
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