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EasyJet Turning To Drones For Aircraft Inspections

Posted by samzenpus on from the checking-out-the-machine dept.

itwbennett writes: Would you trust your aircraft inspection to a drone? Budget airline easyJet is testing just such a system, aimed at reducing the amount of time an aircraft is out of service. Instead of having humans perform on-site visual inspections, the drone will "fly around an aircraft snapping images, which will then be fed to engineers for analysis."

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  1. Re:Saves having to climb a ladder by rtb61 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In the world of psychopathic corporate finance it is not 'bollocks' and is the norm. Company with solid repuation and high trust are routinely bought by vulture capitalists who pay too much for them and then who strip away all those costs associated with those activities that earned those companies their reputation and trust. The temporary surge in profits is then used to dress up the company for sale at a profit before the consequences of the profit pumping decisions come to light. So the on sold now unreliable and not trustworthy company than collapse as it's reputation collapses and the vulture capitalist strolls off with the profits. Mitt Romney was a specialist at this and destroyed many a company, many jobs and crippled many pension funds but of course he is a conservative hero for doing so.

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  2. Re:Not really what you should be worried about by jabuzz · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Even better than that you could have the drone fly a preplanned route around the plane capturing every square centimetre and then have a computer compare the imagery with the results from last week/month/year and flag up any differences for the engineer to actually look at.

    Add in some imaging in wavelengths other than visible light, not only could this be quicker and cheaper than a manual human inspection it could also be better.