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Old July 15th 07, 01:45 PM posted to rec.aviation.military,rec.aviation.military.naval,sci.military.naval
Peter Skelton
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Default The Unmanned Combat Air System Carrier Demonstration Program: A New Dawn for Naval Aviation?

On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 07:46:24 -0400, Tiger
wrote:

tomcervo wrote:

On Jul 13, 11:29?pm, "Milton Wirth" wrote:


Advantages
of getting the humans out of the aircraft far outweigh adantages of
having humans onboard.



Is there a known percentage of how much of an airframe is dedicated to
protecting the pilot or compensating for human physical limitations?



Well for a start? No cockpit needed, no O2 system, no ejection seat, no
G load blackout. While Not a great movie, The Film "Stealth", Jammie
Foxx & Jessica Biel dealt with operating such a system. It clearly has
some advantages...

I think the main advantage will turn out to be elimination of the
G restrictions.


Peter Skelton