Drone Lands on Carrier
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From NBS News:
The X-47B drone made history Wednesday as the first robot to land itself on the moving flight deck of an aircraft carrier at sea,according to U.S. Navy. The machine, named "Salty Dog 502," took off from the Naval Air Station Patuxent River on a flight headed to the USS George H. W. Bush, in the Atlantic off the coast of Virginia. That carrier deck is familiar turf for the drone. On May 14 this year, it executed a first time "catapult takeoff" and landed successfully at Patuxent an hour later.
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