The software in the four-seater Piper Warrior light plane will allow Mr Cunningham to receive constant updates on the plane's height, position and speed at the touch of a button.
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The beetles performed best when confronted with a perfect starry sky projected on to the planetarium dome, but coped just as well when shown only the diffuse bar of light that is the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy.
It said it would, however, continue building the light-weight fuel-efficient plane.
It works by scanning a laser beam across an object and manipulating the reflected light to produce an extremely narrow focal plane.
The most dangerous episode of the hostage crisis occurred at first light on Monday morning when the hijackers saw armed security forces surrounding the plane, said the crew.
That makes the precise location of the surface where the image is to be formed much less important, because any particular plane at any given location will receive more or less the same pattern of light rays.
At Beijing, Foster has put all the international flights in the rear three-sided building, which is similar to the front one and almost as grand, and you walk off the plane right into his vast space, a celebration of arrival awash with natural light.
Considered the world's most advanced sun-powered plane, the Solar Impulse took off from Moffett Field in Mountain View at first light for a two-hour practice run in advance of a planned multi-city, cross-country tour.
Investigators will try to figure out why the plane made such a steep descent into the home and whether the weather conditions -- light rain and low clouds -- played any role, he said.
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