Back in 2010, avionics manufacturer Rockwell Collins successfully demonstrated a fully autonomous landing system in a stock single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza.
Thanks to this sustained investment, myriad engineering challenges have been overcome that previously precluded a single aircraft design from taking-off and landing like helicopters and flying horizontally like conventional airplanes.
Ms Parkes says that there are several ports that registered for the landing of tuna that have links with organised crime, at which not a single tuna has been recorded as having been landed.