Photo Credit: Northrop Grumman
By Tobin Harshaw
It’s not going to overshadow Chuck Yeager or the Wright Brothers, but when a drone aircraft’s tailhook snatched a wire stretched across the deck of the U.S.S. George H.W. Bush near Virginia Tuesday, mankind entered a new era of flight. Not only was Northrop Grumman’s X-47B the first unmanned vehicle to land on an aircraft carrier, but it also did so guided exclusively by its built-in computer program.
