Timeline for Which "pilotless aircraft" did the authors of the 1944 Chicago convention have in mind?
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| Sep 12, 2016 at 19:39 | vote | accept | Monolo | ||
| Sep 11, 2016 at 11:37 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAviation/status/774934908502417408 | ||
| Sep 11, 2016 at 1:58 | comment | added | slebetman | The US armed forces began experimenting with "drones" in the 1930s: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_unmanned_aerial_vehicles. While many hobbyists detest the use of the term "drone" to describe radio controlled aircraft the term "drone" as applied to unmanned aircraft originated with the early US Navy research in the 30s and 40s. They mostly ended up being used for target practice but at least two programs were designed to develop pilotless kamikaze aircraft (one piloted remotely by TV signal and one piloted by pigeons) | |
| Sep 10, 2016 at 15:36 | comment | added | Adam | The V1 was from that timeframe. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb | |
| Sep 10, 2016 at 15:00 | answer | added | aeroalias | timeline score: 12 | |
| Sep 10, 2016 at 14:24 | comment | added | Carey Gregory | The only pilotless aircraft I can recall from that era were barrage balloons, but those are tethered and don't actually navigate, so I doubt that's what they had in mind. I would expect they were simply anticipating the foreseeable. | |
| Sep 10, 2016 at 14:11 | history | asked | Monolo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |