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Hey it's slip coaches all over again!
Real talk, I could see something like this adding some efficiency, but I can't imagine these trailers landing at a regular commercial airport without a crew and power to abort the landing and circle back when the landing looks to sketch.
Maybe these slip trailers might land at dedicated/specific landing sites where they have the risk tolerance for an unmanned, potentially uncontrolled super-heavy glider landing, but it's still high risk to anything on the ground on its flight path should the unmanned glider crash