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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Piper Aircraft’s M600 turboprop and Cirrus Aircraft’s Vision Jet are to feature a new Garmin automatic landing capability in a first for general aviation aircraft. Piper Aircraft’s M600 turboprop and ...

an automatic landing system developed by a company called Garmin was activated and an aircraft successfully made an emergency landing. Garmin's automatic landing system is activated when the system ...

The space Shuttle system presently includes an autoland system that provides automated guidance capable of navigating the orbiter to the selected landing runway. The increased duration of space ...

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 ...