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.
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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.
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.
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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