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.

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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