Piper Announces First GA Aircraft with Autoland Capability

Re:Piper Announces First GA Aircraft with Autoland Capability by AWildC182 on Thursday October 31, 2019 @03:02PM (#21412390)

A "good" landing is one which people can walk away from and a "great" landing is one where you can use the cruise missile again so by definition, a cruise missile can complete neither a "good" nor a "great" landing by design.

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Re:Piper Announces First GA Aircraft with Autoland Capability by bstrong on Thursday October 31, 2019 @09:49PM (#21415632)

"One unusual capability of the Snark missile was its ability to fly away from its launch point for up to 11 hours, and then return for a landing. If its warhead did not detach from its body, then the Snark could be flown repeatedly."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM-62_Snark

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Re:Piper Announces First GA Aircraft with Autoland Capability by AWildC182 on Friday November 01, 2019 @01:23PM (#21421369)

Of course cold war shenanigans would prove me wrong.... I stand corrected

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Re:Piper Announces First GA Aircraft with Autoland Capability by OnlineGladiator on Thursday October 31, 2019 @05:12PM (#21413760)

Well in theory it could fail in such a miraculous way that everything is intact and it just skidded across the dirt - so while that might be considered a "good" landing it would be considered a "bad" missile launch.

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Re:Piper Announces First GA Aircraft with Autoland Capability by exikyut on Thursday October 31, 2019 @09:23PM (#21415496)

Then the SpaceX stage1 (or stage2, or however they call it) is a missile that only makes great landings. :D

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Re:Piper Announces First GA Aircraft with Autoland Capability by serf on Thursday October 31, 2019 @06:14PM (#21414323)

there are plenty of loitering munitions that have great landings routinely.

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