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A glimpse into what aviation might look like with humans completely removed from the equation.

These classic images demonstrate the enduring appeal of airplanes and the people who flew them.

The first aircraft autopilots were developed more than a century ago by an American named Lawrence Sperry; he demonstrated the device in France during 1914. It took a further twenty three years, however, before technology had advanced sufficiently to achieve the first automated landing. Following a series of experiments with automatic landing systems the U.S. Army Air Corps achieved this feat on August 23rd, 1937 with a short flight between Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio and nearby Patterson Field. This was a low-budget affair and succeeded only because of the persistence of the few pioneers inv...

For those looking for inflight fun, without having to squash into a tiny toilet, a new Las Vegas venture has the answer. But will the idea take off?

entering the cockpit. In August 2020, DARPA’s AlphaDogfight trials—a series of AI experiments inside a simulated fighter jet cockpit—pitted an Air Force F-16 pilot against an AI pilot in a virtual dogfight. In a blow to fighter pilot egos everywhere, man lost to machine...five times in a row. But it wasn’t a real battle. Nobody knows that better than USAF Colonel Dan “Animal” Javorsek, the manager for DARPA’s Air Combat Evaluation (ACE) program. “We envision a future in which AI handles the split-second maneuvering during within-visual-range dogfights, keeping pilots safer a...