"In the dark days of World War I, when flying machines, radio, and electronics were infant technologies, the first remotely controlled experimental aircraft took to the skies and unmanned radio controlled 40-foot high-speed Motor Torpedo Boats ploughed the seas in Britain. Developed by the Brit...

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1. Verfasser:	Mills, Steve 1969- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Oxford ; Havertown, PA Casemate 2019
Schlagworte:	Erster Weltkrieg Luftkrieg Drohne Großbritannien World War, 1914-1918 / Aerial operations, British Vehicles, Remotely piloted / History Drone aircraft / History World War (1914-1918) Military operations, Aerial / British Vehicles, Remotely piloted 1914-1918 History
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Zusammenfassung:	"In the dark days of World War I, when flying machines, radio, and electronics were infant technologies, the first remotely controlled experimental aircraft took to the skies and unmanned radio controlled 40-foot high-speed Motor Torpedo Boats ploughed the seas in Britain. Developed by the British Army's Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Navy these prototype weapons stemmed from an early form of television demonstrated before the war by Prof. A. M. Low. The remote control systems for these aircraft and boats were invented at RFC Secret Experimental Works commanded by Prof. Low, which was part of the organization of 'back-room boys' in the Munitions Inventions Department. These audacious projects of Low and his contemporaries led to the hundreds of remotely controlled Queen Bee aerial targets in the 1930s and hence to all the machines that we now call 'drones'."
Beschreibung:	vi, 297 Seiten Illustrationen, Portraits
ISBN:	9781612007892