ALTANTIC OCEAN: First Aircraft Carrier to Successfully Catapult launch an unnanned Aircraft from its flight deck . . .

130514-N-WH671-001 ALTANTIC OCEAN (May 14, 2013) An X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) taxies and launches from the flight deck of Aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77). George H.W. Bush is the first aircraft carrier to successfully catapult launch an unnanned aircraft from its flight deck. (U.S. Navy video by Mass Communication Specialist 2^nd Class Gregory Wilhelmi/Released).

* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj2xpnhhQp8&list=PLel549cJ6qbV5sJlbwG-77vnSnw181VdQ

Semua pemeriksaan biasa telah berlaku di hadapan penerbangan ujian F-16 di Florida. Terdapat hanya satu perkara yang hilang . . . pemandunya. Walau bagaimanapun, itu adalah disengajakan. Enjin dilepaskan; pesawat dibakar landasan, ia juga mengambil kira dalam gaya gambar-sempurna . . . tanpa pemandu. Jet reconfigured Boeing adalah tidak lama lagi pada 40,000 kaki membuat jenis gerakan yang juruterbang mempunyai latihan utama yang perlu dilakukan.

Semua pemeriksaan biasa telah berlaku di hadapan penerbangan F-16 ujian di Florida. Terdapat hanya satu perkara yang hilang ... perintis. Walau bagaimanapun, itu adalah disengajakan. Enjin dipecat; pesawat dibakar landasan, ia juga mengambil kira dalam gaya gambar-sempurna. . . tanpa pemandu. Jet reconfigured Boeing adalah tidak lama lagi pada 40,000 kaki membuat jenis gerakan yang juruterbang mempunyai latihan utama yang perlu dilakukan.

All the normal checks had taken place ahead of an F-16 test flight in Florida. There was just one thing missing...the pilot. However, that was intentional. The engine fired up; the plane burned down the runway; it even took off in picture-perfect style . . . unmanned. Boeing's reconfigured jet was soon at 40,000 ft making the kind of manoeuvres that pilots had major training to do.

A perfect barrel roll, not controlled at the joystick but by remote control, on the ground at Tyndall Air Force Base. Two test pilots flew the newly-named QF-16 jet towards the Gulf of Mexico and back again, landing successfully in a way which was described as "better than any (flying) pilot has done." Boeing says these fighter jets could be used to help train future pilots and give them something to aim their weapons at. First production deliveries to the US Air Force could be in 2015. Report by Ashley Fudge.