robot pilot
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As soon as the plane reached cruising altitude, Langford, sitting in the back seat, pushed a button, and a robot pilot took over from the human one.
From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2012
The rest of the time, the ship was guided by "Mr. Zilch," Commander Hawks's name for a robot pilot built by George De Besson, California engineer.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the second day, after passing Nigeria, the robot pilot quit, leaving the human pilots to guess their way through rain squalls and the second night.
From Time Magazine Archive
The story got around that the plane would take off without a soul inside, fly straight to Honolulu by means of a "robot" pilot and directional radio.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once a course is set the robot pilot keeps the machine on that route and errors of even a fraction of a degree are instantly and automatically detected and corrected.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 by Various
