Would You Get Into A Plane With No Pilot? Tests Begin On Next-Generation Of Civilian Aircraft Controlled By REMOTE

Would You Get Into A Plane With No Pilot?
File photo dated 21/04/10 of a plane leaving Newcastle Airport as September holiday bookings are booming due to the wet summer and the Olympics.
File photo dated 21/04/10 of a plane leaving Newcastle Airport as September holiday bookings are booming due to the wet summer and the Olympics.

The passenger aircraft of the future could one day be flown by remote by pilots sitting in a control room hundreds of miles away.

Tests on a new breed of civilian aircraft which use the same pilotless technology currently found in military drones begin next month in the UK.

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