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The Dayton Daily News reports that Air Force and Wright State University researchers at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base — where key UAV programs are managed — are trying to effectively automate many of the operating functions so that UAVs can allow a single human operator to oversee multiple craft at once. One problem: operating multiple aircraft at once is virtually impossible for a single human. So says David Gross, an Wright State Research Institute engineer who is the project’s principal investigator.