European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 4, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse The russian spacecraft Buran left lands at Bai Konur following its 1938 unmanned Maiden High. Planes without pilots by Paul e. Ceruzzi new Dayd o you wait r Ifie dust time you used an automatic in for machine to handle a Bank transaction that. Previously rerouted a human teller1? ii you were like Ino you probably wore apprehensive at Lirosi. After a while Uriu got it. No you Don t think Loo Zinith ii bout it. Even Vuoeh the atm tonks Dawn you shrug it Oflas oho of the is by modern life now whal in you Gist on a passenger of plan and cawed l or being pwn hat Day by a computer Noi a human Pilot sound crazy Mayhe it is is anyone seriously consider in of Chi this Iri the near future nol quit re Hui we nuts lion is a real. Ono and t i Hoir ?. In is Only a Small Par. In Lack Ashi fl1 to can orgy goes Tho Othiol of. Already hero. The conc no or in i Ciru tand psychological jiitte.1. I to had ones. Of Deal with but con ii l run Tsily no human Pilot can i Al without the help of on Board Compi tors. Which continuously adjust the Craft s try by i 0" con told off Appe Aimy on passenger j 5. Rio tasty the Airbus a 320. " not Lur Nasa research the .himatlirsllp3lcdin.ig79, was Pilot on the ground scaled before a control panel his commands Wem radioed to the Jane. Where on Board Cimpi leis interpreted and executed them. J to i limit s primary Mission like Ito a 29 5, Vas to explore High . But Ito act that Iho Hirvat conducted us test lights Sticco Sully Voith no one on Board raised that quo Sijon again is a Hurnard Pitot necessary. Surely air planes arc diff Drorit rom automatic Leller Machinot. Asidiporlant1 As of Money is to us to can live a i in an. On its Maiden liar jul. In Tov 15. .1988. In cup was no Crew computers Tan he. Entire Mission. Including the � tending future missions full by manned but the. Crew will Servo Only an backup Tor Ida Aulo malic systems Hie us. Space shut ire requires a human Pilot 10 land but. Tha critical Manou Vars new Pessary to return rom space and and on a runway. shuttle would Flay been. Designed his juy Grid in Ere been a serious Fianco that its compile 5 would Nab off. A Lis a a ". Ar-.-j-.T-. 1 r to Rummi ism .,.-=, sip of a -. " ".-. a i s 29 research air plane can not be blown without on Board computers. Acc Agioni Malj Naclion of the Bank s Cam Pulga if an .111 piano Conri by Only with thu help of ils Cqrrie Pilic of. Icon Hife Iov Jock nil the Lime. It turns put Thrift in you Way want to 5uio a can Mutaf Discon t break do in. Yoli can. 1 tic x 2u and Ilic apace i Hulsbos use multiple copies of he comp Leih. Hylo on ill actions ii. Ono computer haul of fail it in outvoted by the Osier ones which presumably pkg still to Kimg. Lit the Mani inc the Pilot or ground controller 15 Aluri cd an Dunn. Bring the Oral i in far a Sale Landing before the others fail. Ii is no it Lerent torn the system on commercial passenger planes Wilh Moie than one engine. Multiple engines Don just allow for greater Hyung tango and payload they indic lab solely As Well. Passenger planes ate designed to Lelyand oven Lake of with one or Mon in Curca one makes each engine As reliable of one can of o. In Uherc s a failure it does not moan a Wash ii is not easy to design computer systems that Aybt i can to done and so tar it has worked very Well intact Fly by w to controls will be i common Asel engines on new general soil coins Porcial air Rall but thai brings us Bacho Hio question o the human Pilot some would like to get rid of him or her Alto Golbein. 11 Iho Coni Puli s air reliable enough Hunan pilots arc nol necessary. No human Pilo i. Means no More accidents attributed to Pilot error Pei ups the cause of if Lino crashes. But although humans err they also unlike computers a can react., to novel Siti Illions unforeseen by even Iho ties computer program Mars. Aerospace engineers. Remember the Lisl manned Mission to tote Moon. To i9g9 during Iho Landing astronaut Neit Armstrong had to seize control Over the lunar module at the Tost. Min ulc to Manei Iver Over a held of boulders that the Ori Tabard computer was sending him to. And Tho Lorenl Uroic actions by the Pilo of Iho Unildo t47 or r Tho Paoli form gig Tho crippled Sparso to a Salo Landing in Hawaii irom 22,000 Loel further Undot sabres the Volvo of a human Pilot there arb Loo Many unknowns Iri flying and like it or not it takes a human brain to Deal Wilk a 1 least Soma them. So my guess is that Iho future will Sec pilots Sli in command of commercial passenger slights. Gom Puleio not humans will eventually by Iti Ost cargo and reconnaissance missions Many space flights and some military missions but Nola la military missions. Tho Success of Iho Himat notwithstanding,.fighterplanes probably a Flat sir have human pilots because in two sides son up robot planes other., and no Ono was killed i would be hard for i Lucr Counley to claim a Victory 1 the Pilot s1 role has obo carefully integrated with the computer spills cannot be passive to Dolittle. Mora thnh a Tiopilo systems. Ii they wore they would Quick become bored arid inattentive and Jose their ability to read Quick Lily Jyh a crisis by Hay cannot to Loo much in control or the Adan Agos of computer controls would be lost find
