Mr Shrouder added however, that pilotless passenger flights are still far from becoming reality.
It says the two leaders will agree on plans to build a new generation of pilotless "fighter drone" aircraft.
The WWF has also developed pilotless special drone aircraft to detect poachers, locate forest fires and detect illegal felling of trees.
The relentless advance of technology means the use of pilotless aircraft to hunt down terrorists will become more appealing to America.
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BAE's Simon Shrouder estimates that pilotless aircraft could be used within three to five years to investigate weather systems or natural disasters, such as volcanic ash clouds.
X-43A, which is pilotless, four metres long, and has a nose made of solid tungsten, will be the first working aircraft to be powered by a scramjet a supersonic-combustion ramjet.
The Pakistan military's top spokesman called the attacks, which he said were by pilotless drones, "counterproductive, " because they undercut his country's efforts to oust militants from the ungoverned tribal areas.
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And so, in due course, the alien craft arrive: tetchy pilotless drones in the shape of pizzas, from which individual slices peel off to launch spicy, deep-crust attacks on defenseless mortals.
Gortney said a surface-to-air missile threat would have to be eliminate before pilotless aircraft such as the Global Hawk drone could fly missions to see how successful the strikes have been.
While it may be a while before your Citation is pilotless, NBAA, AOPA and the other alphabet organizations better learn to spell AUVSI and help them get where they are going.
These missiles essentially pilotless aircraft capable of high accuracy delivery of nuclear or conventional ordinance over long distances from a variety of surface and subsurface naval platforms represent a powerful force-multiplier for the U.S. Navy.
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But if the aircraft in question, known as Trumper, Piper and Laima, make it to Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides, as their owners hope, they will be the first pilotless planes to have crossed the Atlantic Ocean and landed safely.
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