Self-flying planes are coming to commercial aviation, and not in some distant Jetsons future world.
Luke Aikins and Andy Farrington cooked up a plan to fly their individual planes to around 3 600 metres in the air, where they would then nosedive the planes, jump out, and skydive into the other plane before landing safely.
The US’s Federal Aviation Administration tightened the requirements for being awarded “astronaut” status, and it seems Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos don’t make the cut.