For the first time, an automatic landing system called Autoland was used to land a plane in Colorado after pilots reported ...

DCNS and Thales today announced the launch of a supplementary phase for the Technology Demonstration of a system for automatic landing and deck-landing of UAVs (D2AD), which has just been notified by ...

A team of German researchers has succeeded in developing an ' automatic landing system ' that enables automatic landing without a pilot for small aircraft. The system, called ' C2Land ' does not ...

Automatic landings have long been standard procedure for commercial aircraft. While major airports have the infrastructure necessary to ensure the safe navigation of the aircraft, this is usually not ...

Big commercial aircraft are already routinely guided in for automatic landings at large airports, as their autopilot follows radio signals transmitted by ground-based antennas. Such auto-landings ...

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has demonstrated three new automatic take-off and landing capabilities for its MQ-9A Reaper unmanned air vehicle (UAV). As part of a modernisation contract with ...

Self-driving and self-parking cars have been the hype in the automobile industry for the recent years but that's harder to pull off when it comes to autonomous planes. Not just automatic takeoff and ...

— -- Question: Hello, Captain. Hollywood has given us many movies wherein a normal passenger is called upon to rescue an airplane full of people when, for some reason, the entire crew becomes ...

A German university has achieved an automatic landing in a light airplane using vision-assisted navigation. Vision-assisted navigation helped land a Diamond DA42 automatically, as part of a research ...

A team of German researchers has created an automatic landing system for small aircraft that lets them touch down not only without a pilot, but without any of the tech on the ground that lets other ...

Airbus Helicopters is developing an experimental on board image processing management system aimed at performing automatic approaches and landing in challenging conditions, as well as paving the way ...

Pilots of some fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft will be prohibited from using certain types of landing procedures such as automatic landing and Required Navigation Performance (RNP) at airports where ...