In october , danger room broke the news that the cockpits at the air force 's drone fleet based out of creech air force base in nevada were infected with a virus .
Flushed with virtue , the country that used to be an international pariah has become a mediator of conflicts in such cockpits as burundi and congo .
这个昔日的国际孤儿如今美德洋溢,成了冲突的调停者,介入诸如布隆迪与刚果这样的战场。
When mary cummings , a former us navy pilot , stopped flying f-18 fighter jets in 1997 , there were no video links between cockpits and command centres , and even radio contact was patchy at times . As a result , pilots often made their own calls on whether or not to strike .
Drones already use gps data to know where they are , but if they were equipped with ads-b and the necessary algorithms they would be better able to avoid both each other and those quaint aircraft that still have pilots sitting in the cockpits .