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The Convention on International Civil Aviation (a.k.a. the "Chicago convention"), includes right from its first version, signed in 1944, an article about "pilotless aircraft". The article in question reads:

Pilotless aircraft

 

Article 8

 

No aircraft capable of being flown without a pilot shall be flown without a pilot over the territory of a contracting State without special authorization by that State and in accordance with the terms of such authorization. Each contracting State undertakes to insure that the flight of such aircraft without a pilot in regions open to civil aircraft shall be so controlled as to obviate danger to civil aircraft.

The original text is available here.

I would guess that language like that (which it takes time and effort to produce) will not get included in an international treaty without a reason.

So the question is, which aircraft did the authors of article 8 have in mind in 1944?

The Convention on International Civil Aviation (a.k.a. the "Chicago convention"), includes right from its first version, signed in 1944, an article about "pilotless aircraft". The article in question reads:

Pilotless aircraft

 

Article 8

 

No aircraft capable of being flown without a pilot shall be flown without a pilot over the territory of a contracting State without special authorization by that State and in accordance with the terms of such authorization. Each contracting State undertakes to insure that the flight of such aircraft without a pilot in regions open to civil aircraft shall be so controlled as to obviate danger to civil aircraft.

The original text is available here.

I would guess that language like that (which it takes time and effort to produce) will not get included in an international treaty without a reason.

So the question is, which aircraft did the authors of article 8 have in mind in 1944?

The Convention on International Civil Aviation (a.k.a. the "Chicago convention"), includes right from its first version, signed in 1944, an article about "pilotless aircraft". The article in question reads:

Pilotless aircraft

Article 8

No aircraft capable of being flown without a pilot shall be flown without a pilot over the territory of a contracting State without special authorization by that State and in accordance with the terms of such authorization. Each contracting State undertakes to insure that the flight of such aircraft without a pilot in regions open to civil aircraft shall be so controlled as to obviate danger to civil aircraft.

The original text is available here.

I would guess that language like that (which it takes time and effort to produce) will not get included in an international treaty without a reason.

So the question is, which aircraft did the authors of article 8 have in mind in 1944?

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Which "pilotless aircraft" did the authors of the 1944 Chicago convention have in mind?

The Convention on International Civil Aviation (a.k.a. the "Chicago convention"), includes right from its first version, signed in 1944, an article about "pilotless aircraft". The article in question reads:

Pilotless aircraft

Article 8

No aircraft capable of being flown without a pilot shall be flown without a pilot over the territory of a contracting State without special authorization by that State and in accordance with the terms of such authorization. Each contracting State undertakes to insure that the flight of such aircraft without a pilot in regions open to civil aircraft shall be so controlled as to obviate danger to civil aircraft.

The original text is available here.

I would guess that language like that (which it takes time and effort to produce) will not get included in an international treaty without a reason.

So the question is, which aircraft did the authors of article 8 have in mind in 1944?