Are carrier landings still strictly a hands-on procedure or can they land a plane on a carrier using computers only?
I know I am asking for information that is not in the news or in the movies.
A quick google search revealed this:
Quote:
Naval Aviation entered a new era on April 23, 2001,
aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) as the Navy's Joint
Precision Approach and Landing System (JPALS) program set a
historic first. An F/A-18A Hornet touched down on deck
performing the first fully automated landing at sea using
Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites.
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http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/news/navywire/nws01/nws010427.txt
The link will take you to a text page that has a bunch of other stuff. Use the
find on this page tool under your edit button.
04-14-2005, 11:57 AM
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