AIRCRAFT FLIES ATLANTIC WITHOUT A PILOT.—The United States Army Air Forces’ Douglas C-54 Skymaster, which last week made a 2400-mile flight from Stephenville, Newfoundland, to Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, England, guided entirely by a “mechanical brain.” While an emergency crew of nine was on board, all controls were operated by mechanism unaided. The flight was the first completely. automatic air crossing of the Atlantic.
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Press, Volume LXXXIIi, Issue 25302, 30 September 1947, Page 7
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63AIRCRAFT FLIES ATLANTIC WITHOUT A PILOT.—The United States Army Air Forces’ Douglas C-54 Skymaster, which last week made a 2400-mile flight from Stephenville, Newfoundland, to Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, England, guided entirely by a “mechanical brain.” While an emergency crew of nine was on board, all controls were operated by mechanism unaided. The flight was the first completely. automatic air crossing of the Atlantic. Press, Volume LXXXIIi, Issue 25302, 30 September 1947, Page 7
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