Pilots drink coffee while flight is controlled from the ground

Aerospace company BAE Systems has successfully completed an "unmanned" flight with a Jetstream 31 – dubbed the “flying test bed” – from Warton near Preston in Lancashire, England, to Inverness in Scotland.

Pilots drink coffee while flight is controlled from the ground

Aerospace company BAE Systems has successfully completed an "unmanned" flight with a Jetstream 31 – dubbed the “flying test bed” – from Warton near Preston in Lancashire, England, to Inverness in Scotland.

Strictly speaking, the flight was not an unmanned one, in that two pilots were in the cockpit as a precaution.

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