{"id":70298,"date":"2017-06-08T09:22:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T16:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/boeing-studies-pilotless-planes-as-it-ponders-next-jetliner"},"modified":"2017-06-08T09:22:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T16:22:57","slug":"boeing-studies-pilotless-planes-as-it-ponders-next-jetliner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/boeing-studies-pilotless-planes-as-it-ponders-next-jetliner","title":{"rendered":"Boeing studies pilotless planes as it ponders next jetliner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/boeing-studies-pilotless-planes-as-it-ponders-next-jetliner.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SEATTLE Boeing Co is looking ahead to a brave new world where jetliners fly without pilots and aims to test some of the technology next year, the world\u2019s biggest plane maker said in a briefing ahead of the Paris Airshow.<\/p>\n<p>The idea may seem far-fetched but with self-flying drones available for less than $1,000, \u201cthe basic building blocks of the technology clearly are available,\u201d said Mike Sinnett, Boeing\u2019s vice president of product development.<\/p>\n<p>Jetliners can already take off, cruise and land using their onboard flight computers and the number of pilots on a standard passenger plane has dropped to two from three over the years.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-boeing-airshow-autonomous-idUSKBN18Z12M\">http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-boeing-airshow-autonomous-idUSKBN18Z12M<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE Boeing Co is looking ahead to a brave new world where jetliners fly without pilots and aims to test some of the technology next year, the world\u2019s biggest plane maker said in a briefing ahead of the Paris Airshow. The idea may seem far-fetched but with self-flying drones available for less than $1,000, \u201cthe [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}