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NASA Wants You To Fly The Highway In The Sky

Posted by timothy on from the wonder-if-ntsb-knows-about-this dept.

rakerman writes "NASA is working on a program called SATS, the Small Aircraft Transportation System, which is designed to improve the automation and safety of small aircraft travel to the point where you could fly the 'highway in the sky' as easily as you drive your car." I'm ready -- when is the Moller Skycar?

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  1. Tee hee by LordOfYourPants · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm looking forward to the 3-dimensional traffic jams..

  2. I dunno.. by PopeAlien · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've always heard you're statistically safer in an airplane 30,000 feet above the ground than you are in a car 30,000 feet above the ground..

    Will these be hydrogen powered? The new Honda Zeppelin?

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  3. Re:Air Traffic Controllers by mcpkaaos · · Score: 4, Funny

    What would the equivilent of road rage be? sky-rage? air-rage?

    Dog-fights on the 405.

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  4. Re:More to it than that... by SecretAsianMan · · Score: 3, Funny

    how many small aircraft pilots have actually practiced a ditched landing without any engine power?

    I have. I'm not a licensed pilot, but at one time I was training to be one. In 1996, my instructor and I were flying about in the '59 Cessna 150, and the engine died. Instead of taking over, the instructor told me to pick a spot and land there. The landing was a little bouncy, but otherwise uneventful. Of course, being in flat, rural Oklahoma helped immensely.

    I would have said 'IANALP' above, but the LISP programmer in me had some strange reservations about that.

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