Re: [MBZ] OT: USAF turns a manned airplane into a drone!

2019-08-24 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
Ok,  While it is not exactly C3Po, my premise that maybe what was new was not R/C conversions, but a c3Po type device to run the plane is not far off. OK Don via Mercedes wrote on 8/23/19 12:49 PM: Ah - the devil is in the details, the story Andrew posted isn't about another jet being

Re: [MBZ] OT: USAF turns a manned airplane into a drone!

2019-08-23 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
The manned chopper that flies directly over our home every day is as bad as any drone. On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 4:15 PM Randy Bennell via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > On 23/08/2019 3:00 PM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote: > > If you believe that corporations can pay taxes and hire

Re: [MBZ] OT: USAF turns a manned airplane into a drone!

2019-08-23 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
On 23/08/2019 3:00 PM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote: If you believe that corporations can pay taxes and hire lobbyists, then you can believe that they also would put their company logo on their evil killing machines. - Max Charleston SC And, you might even believe it is safe to

Re: [MBZ] OT: USAF turns a manned airplane into a drone!

2019-08-23 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
If you believe that corporations can pay taxes and hire lobbyists, then you can believe that they also would put their company logo on their evil killing machines. - Max Charleston SC On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 3:35 PM Mitch Haley via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > It's

Re: [MBZ] OT: USAF turns a manned airplane into a drone!

2019-08-23 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
> On August 23, 2019 at 3:03 PM Craig via Mercedes > wrote: > > I'm guessing you meant the second URL above ... > > Skynet was the military computer system that took over and launched the nukes in order to get rid of the humans. The Swartzenegger style Terminators were Cyberdyne

Re: [MBZ] OT: USAF turns a manned airplane into a drone!

2019-08-23 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 14:09:10 -0400 Floyd Thursby via Mercedes wrote: > Cyberdyne. https://www.cyberdyne.jp/english/ > Skynet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(Terminator) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(satellite) https://www.wired.com/2015/05/nsa-actual-skynet-program/

Re: [MBZ] OT: USAF turns a manned airplane into a drone!

2019-08-23 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
Cyberdyne. Skynet. --FT On 8/23/19 1:49 PM, OK Don via Mercedes wrote: Ah - the devil is in the details, the story Andrew posted isn't about another jet being converted into a radio controlled plane, it's about something else entirely: *WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – *The Air Force

Re: [MBZ] OT: USAF turns a manned airplane into a drone!

2019-08-23 Thread OK Don via Mercedes
Ah - the devil is in the details, the story Andrew posted isn't about another jet being converted into a radio controlled plane, it's about something else entirely: *WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – *The Air Force Research Laboratory and DZYNE Technologies Incorporated successfully

Re: [MBZ] OT: USAF turns a manned airplane into a drone!

2019-08-21 Thread OK Don via Mercedes
I shared this discussion with my son who works at Tinker AFB, here's his response: "They're up to the QF-16 now! I saw the control room for these based at Eglin AFB." https://youtu.be/E_A_rEZoXSg On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 3:05 PM G Mann via Mercedes wrote: > Correct, back in about 1982 I was

Re: [MBZ] OT: USAF turns a manned airplane into a drone!

2019-08-20 Thread G Mann via Mercedes
Correct, back in about 1982 I was part of a group that contracted to put a number of F 100 aircraft that had been in "dry storage" into flight status with remote flight control. They were used as target drones for training fighter pilots. On completion of the conversion, they could take off, fly

Re: [MBZ] OT: USAF turns a manned airplane into a drone!

2019-08-20 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 10:54:26 -0500 Curley McLain via Mercedes wrote: > I thought they had used regular aircraft operated remote control for > years.   Maybe the difference is that this is a drone (C3Po) operating > a drone. The USAF has used regular aircraft, in the case I know F-100s and

Re: [MBZ] OT: USAF turns a manned airplane into a drone!

2019-08-20 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
I thought they had used regular aircraft operated remote control for years.   Maybe the difference is that this is a drone (C3Po) operating a drone. Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote on 8/19/19 9:59 AM: Scientists say new ROBOpilot completed a two-hour test flight, essentially turning a

[MBZ] OT: USAF turns a manned airplane into a drone!

2019-08-19 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Scientists say new ROBOpilot completed a two-hour test flight, essentially turning a manned plane into a drone. AUGUST 16, 2019 - - -