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🗓️ 1 November 2019
⏱️ 16 minutes
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0:00.0 | Ah, the sound of spring cleaning. |
0:03.6 | Steam clean your way to brighter bathrooms and sparkling kitchens with the car-chasteen cleaner. |
0:09.6 | You'll be done before you know it, with more time to pitch your feet up. |
0:14.0 | Find your car-chasteen cleaner at carchard.co.uk or a car-chard retailer. |
0:24.0 | This past summer, John Astrower went on a test flight. |
0:28.0 | He writes about aviation, so this isn't entirely unusual. |
0:31.6 | He used to cover it for the Wall Street Journal and now runs a website called the Air Current. |
0:36.8 | But the technology that he was testing, that's the amazing part. |
0:40.2 | He was in a small private plane, a Piper M600, flying at about 3,000 feet. |
0:46.0 | And he was with the company Garmin. It makes GPS systems. |
0:49.4 | They said, hey, press the button. |
0:51.0 | And the button on the dashboards is emergency auto-land. |
0:53.8 | You press the button and it starts talking to you. |
0:56.6 | It says emergency auto-land activated. |
0:59.2 | Please remain seated. We're landing at the nearest airport. |
1:02.2 | And the airplane takes over. |
1:08.0 | It will fly you to the nearest airport. |
1:11.2 | It will fly around weather. |
1:13.0 | It will put the flaps down. It will lower the landing gear. |
1:15.8 | It will go into a holding pattern to descend if it needs to. |
1:18.8 | It'll find effectively a GPS approach to fly the airplane right to the runway. |
1:24.0 | So I'm sitting in this airplane. We're coming down through the clouds, |
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