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Autonomous airplane completes first cross-country flight across the US
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Autonomous airplane completes first cross-country flight across the US

So here's the thing - a retrofitted Cessna Caravan just flew itself across the entire United States, covering 3,199 miles from California to North Carolina without any help from its human safety pilot. What's really impressive is that the autonomous system, developed by Joby Aviation, handled every single stage of the journey - taxiing, takeoffs, landings, and everything in between. The plane even had to navigate some seriously tricky situations in real-time, like flying through busy airspace above Phoenix and dodging thunderstorms along the way. And because this is aviation history we're talking about, Joby had the Cessna do a symbolic low pass over the First Flight Monument in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, paying homage to the Wright Brothers' 1903 achievement.
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