ATTOL: Autonomous Taxiing, Take-Off and Landing test flight

Why it was recommended

Sure, no _commercial_ plane can take off with autopilot, but such planes exist[1].

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What it covers

Short Airbus footage of its ATTOL project, in which a test aircraft performed a fully automatic, vision-based take-off at Toulouse-Blagnac. The crew ran eight take-offs over. It is for a general viewer who does not plan to take a prerequisite first.

Video details

Channel

Airbus

Length

56 sec

Year

2020

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