On 2008-05-30, Michael wrote:
the legalities) with no gyros at all. However, airplanes are
generally not built that way. It's been tried before, and the results
were generally unsatisfactory.

Well, unless you consider a Champ unsatisfactory!
This one flew for two hours sans pilot, after it was hand propped with
the throttle wide open:

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...28X02460&key=1

There was another one in similar circumstances which I think was is
Illinois, which flew until it ran out of fuel. I think that may have
been a Taylorcraft - it made what looked like a passable forced landing
into a cornfield.

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