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  • Microsoft playing with Gliders!

    Checkout this link!

    While scouring large swaths of land for prey, predators like hawks and eagles will often take advantage of rising thermals to stay airborne and glide for extended periods with minimal effort. Humans have copied this approach which allows sailplanes to fly without a motor, but Microsoft is now teaching an AI how to…


    Jeremy and Ben
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  • #2
    Where's the fun in autonomous gliders?
    [B]"I have not yet begun to procrastinate!"[/B] -- [B][I]Geoff Painter[/I][/B]

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    • #3
      I could use an autonomous tow plane!!!

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      • #4
        The molded version is a Thermic XXL from Soaring USA.
        Team PowerBox Systems Americas... If flying were the language of men, soaring would be its poetry.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Stew2 View Post
          I could use an autonomous tow plane!!!
          I'll second that!

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          • Xroadie
            Xroadie commented
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            We already have two autonomous towplanes....Len and Jim

        • #6
          The first version of this story I saw showed them using a Radian!

          I don't think I'd want any aircraft guided by a Microsoft product.....too many crashes

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          • #7
            Originally posted by Xroadie View Post
            The first version of this story I saw showed them using a Radian!

            I don't think I'd want any aircraft guided by a Microsoft product.....too many crashes
            Now that's funny!

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