Pilots will soon be showing their skills on the ground below while their crafts doing all the damage in remote areas. BAE Systems along with several universities in the UK are carving out a remote-controlled plane sans wing flaps and sans pilot. The FLAVIIR project (flapless air vehicle integrated industrial research), scheduled to finish in 2009 will churn out cheap unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) with flawless flight techniques.
Ian Postlethwaite1 Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Engineering at Leicester said:
The overall programme is aimed at developing new technologies for future generation uninhabited air vehicles, so called UAVs.The flapless crafts use fluidic thrust vectoring (where direction is changed with a secondary air flow) and air jets, and are equipped with software to control the vehicle without collisions.
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