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Push a Button, Land on a Carrier

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the auto-pilots dept.

sane? writes "Putting an aircraft down on a carrier in bad weather is the stuff of melodramatic Hollywood films. Automated systems for conventional aircraft and big carriers has been done for a while, but getting a hovering Harrier, helicopter, or future JSF to land on a pitching deck of a smaller ship is a different matter. This week QinetiQ demonstrated a complete autoland - a significant step towards making the future JSF work."

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  1. Re:Consumer product by Esteban+Buttez · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, leik a greasy misogynic NERD like you would have a wife. I bet women would rather be lesbian than go anywhere near your two-inch light sabre!!!

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    ~NO CRACK NO SMACK NO ANGEL DUST~ PEACE OUT TO MAH HOMIEZ IN DA OG WORD ON DA STREET SEZ I AM DA KING OF THREADZ -
  2. Re:What the hell...it's only karma... by M1FCJ · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, is an living-god-emperor better than a speaking-to-god-president or not? Give me the emperor any day.

  3. Re:Impressive - but... by HermanAB · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    We can't improve the lives of people in the third world. They have to do it themselves and most lack the motivation, that is why it is still underdeveloped, despite having been inhabited by humans, millions of years longer than any other continent...

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    Oh well, what the hell...