Also, why bother to automate it on a vehicle that will always be
manned? It's kind of like expecting a fighter aircraft to be able
to do mid-air refueling while the autopilot is on and the pilot is
sleeping.

I wonder if perhaps fighter pilots might like to have that feature

It wouldn't surprise me at all to learn that someone is working on
something like that for UCAV's...at which point it is a small matter
of porting right?-)

rick jones
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The glass is neither half-empty nor half-full. The glass has a leak.
The real question is "Can it be patched?"
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