A white utility aircraft swept past the Golden Gate Bridge this month, beginning a nearly 3,200-mile journey that its maker says became the first autonomous flight across the United States.
The aircraft traveled from Concord to the Outer Banks of North Carolina without assistance from its onboard safety pilot, Santa Cruz-based transportation company Joby Aviation announced Friday.
The converted Cessna Caravan taxied, took off, navigated and landed autonomously, while supervisors from Joby’s headquarters and staff at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina remotely observed…