Fly-by-Wireless Plane Takes to the Sky

galactic_grub writes to tell us that engineers in Portugal have built and flown a plane with no wires or mechanical connections between the major systems, only a wireless network. From the article: "Tests flights carried out in Portugal have shown that the system works well. Cristina Santos, at Minho University in Portugal, who developed the plane, says the aim is primarily to reduce weight and power requirements. 'Also, if you do not have the cables then the system is much more flexible to changes,' she says."

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Re:Holy Crap!

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Not to mention the system is based on bluetooth- you could take one of these planes out of the sky with a good bluetooth rifle and fly it into whatever you wanted...if you think the 9-11 hijackers were bold, wait until you see what happens when they can hijack a plane from a half a mile away without even boarding the plane.