Re: Hype Aside, the 1959 Cessna 172 record still stands.
It is a salutary lesson about the actual limitations of automation, drones, AI etc, that all the resources, and countless years of work of Airbus etc, didn't beat two guys with a Cessna, 60 years ago.
My pick is that they were using a Google IOT cloud service, and they incorrectly assumed that even GG wouldn't kill it in 64 days.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
