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janrinok
on Monday August 18 2014, @05:30AM
from the jfk's-big-brother-and-flying-bombs dept.
from the jfk's-big-brother-and-flying-bombs dept.
Gizmodo has an article with elements of a political dynasty and an immature weapons systems.
The Allies had to figure out something to do with bombers that were so clapped-out that it wasn't wise to continue to put crews in them. They stripped out anything that wasn't necessary to make it fly, put in a TV camera pointed at the instruments and another pointed at the ground, and packed the thing with high explosive.
It required a pilot and a flight engineer to get the thing off the ground, after which the 2 guys would bail out and the crew of a trailing plane would fly the "drone". The effectiveness was complete garbage and 4 guys died doing it.
One of them was Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., the older brother of John F. Kennedy.
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(Score: 2) by Lagg on Monday August 18 2014, @01:57PM
Maybe, but they're the majority. RC copters aren't drones and neither is any other hobby RC vehicle. Quit splitting hairs or you're going to end up contributing to the damage that was already done to the hobby.
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(Score: 2) by fnj on Monday August 18 2014, @03:50PM
There used to be true RC helicopters (may still be) that had no on-board smarts at all, just open-loop remote control, and they were/are hard as the devil to fly.
The current rash of quad/hex "copters" all have on-board electronic stability augmentation, and mostly on-board closed-loop station-holding and go-to-waypoint. I would stay that steps over the line to UAV.