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Old 8th Feb 2014, 13:24
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SpannerTwister
 
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It'll never happen.........

It's just ridiculous, it'll never happen.

What's next, someone will suggest that we'll be flying non-stop between Sydney and London, without an engineer, a flight engineer, a navigator or even a radio operator!

Are you seriously suggesting that the Kangaroo Route can be done without overnight stopovers in Singapore and Cairo?

And with just TWO pilots? Be serious!

Meanwhile, back in the real world..

All of the above would have seemed the realm of fantasy 60 years ago yet it happens daily, OK, with one hop but you'll recall Qantas did do a direct flight as a proof of concept a few years ago.

Driverless cars are just around the corner and our grandchildren will think of cars having drivers as a rather quaint old-time thing, hey look at that old car, it's got a steering wheel!

That generation and their children will readily accept pilotless planes as we do not having a man walk in front of our cars waving a red flag!

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