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[ad_1] Boeing Co.'s chief executive officer says it's a matter of when — not if — self-flying planes will debut in commercial aviation. The planemaker's autonomous flight technology being developed for military applications will eventually appear on commercial aircraft in the future, Dave Calhoun said in a Bloomberg TV interview. “Autonomy is going to come to all of the airplanes eventually,” Calhoun said on the sidelines of an event commemorating the final delivery of its iconic 747 jumbo jet in Everett, Washington. “The future of autonomy is real for civil” aviation, he said. Boeing's next iconic design may stem from its partnership with NASA to test-fly a prototype aircraft with a new wing design that Calhoun said could yield as much as a 30% fuel efficiency improvement over ...

[ad_1] Boeing draws curtain on the jumbo-jet era with final Boeing 747 delivery. The first and final 747 jumbo jet models both started with a handshake deal. Back in the mid 1960s, the leaders of Boeing Co. and PanAm came to an agreement that if the US planemaker pushed ahead with the audacious new design, the airline would in turn go ahead and buy the giant jetliner. That gentleman's agreement would kick-start one of the most successful programs in civil aviation, singlehandedly transforming the way the world flies and giving the Queen of the Skies, as the 747 came to be known, the undisputed reign over the world's flight paths for decades to come. No other airplane captured the public imagination quite like the hump-backed jumbo jet, nor illustrated the rewards that can flow ...

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Boeing CEO Sees Self-Flying Tech Coming to Commercial Aircraft

After flying everything from passengers to NASA shuttle, the Boeing 747 sails into history