The first extended aeroplane Aight with a mechanical pilot in charge proved successful here to-'Two aviators took a huge army bomber to an elevation of 1,000 feot, after which they relinquished Jcontrol in favour of the mechanical device.
Feom this. poi on, the "robot pilot" took the across country jund over San Francisco Bay to Francisco, It negotiated the bumpy air in' the Golden Gute district, etuised over the bay region, a Jcarried the plane back to the start-machinery noted each ation from the true course communicated the information to a steering mechanism through electrical conte, Army officials" subsequently. said y's test had proved the!
bility of entrusting aeroplanes: trol when 4 was bad and human pile was] impossible. al piloting de lagen in use fo he aeroplane eto the which hus steamships fe ft is said that the thas proved itself eminently practical, detecting deviations from the sooner thin a human pilot ¢ou though it has been ointed out that human abu to "ease" the helm aft a ahi¢t, checking Ube ship fro continuing too far over on the ce rected course, is a knack the robot Juas still to Learn.—Unit
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