Sentence examples for computer fly from inspiring English sources

Rather than letting the computer fly the plane with the human poised to take over when the computer cannot cope, perhaps it would be better to have the human fly the plane with the computer monitoring the situation, ready to intervene.

What would Hal, the computer in 2001, have said if asked to make a $3,000 home computer fly off the shelves?

I thought it was too much "flying by numbers," or rather, the computer flying by numbers and you just watching it.

"The pilot sits there and the computer flies it.

But for much of the time that a routine flight is in the air, a computer flies the plane.

Missions are planned down to the second, and shortly after an F-117 is aloft, a computer flies the plane according to a detailed flight plan, leaving the pilot to concentrate on attacking the target.

Consider an airliner: a computer flies it; it has been designed, stress-tested and "virtually manufactured" millions of times; it is firing back real-time information to its manufacturers.

Screens mounted in the headrest also eliminate the chances of a free-standing DVD player or computer flying loose in a crash.

For the most part, computers fly modern airliners.

"We've touched every kind of service — medical, dental, computers, flying," said Chiccarelli, 67, who had traveled from Panama City Beach, Fla., to attend with her daughter, who is in the Air Force and shares the same name.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 20 — Notebook computers flew off shelves over the holidays, helping to propel Hewlett-Packard's first-quarter net profit 26percentt higher and to bolster its lead atop the PC heap.