Robot Top Gun: Navy X-47B Drone Rehearses Carrier Landings

Robot Top Gun: Navy X-47B Drone Rehearses Carrier Landings
Robot Top Gun: Navy X-47B Drone Rehearses Carrier Landings

90 years ago, in the fall of 1922, US Navy pilots made the first landings on America’s first-ever aircraft carrier. (Okay, the British did it first). Just a few weeks from now, a Navy aircraft will make history again — except this time there won’t be a pilot. Meet the Navy’s new robotic Top Gun,…