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We're used to hearing freaky, eerie, chill-inducing news about UAVs, because they're sci-fi-esque machines of war and spying. But check this out: New research into damaged UAV flight may end up saving lives.Rockwell Collins has been using scaled-down models of military aircraft to perform research into cutting-edge UAV automated flight control, which is nothing new in itself: Most UAVs fly themselves to some extent, and the remote "pilots" basically tell the aircraft where to fly, where to orbit or hover, and where to spy. But this new research will amaze you since it gives the fly-by-wire systems the ability to fly the aircraft when big parts--like half an entire wing--are missing.
