NEW FRENCH TERROR.
CONTROL OF BATTLE PLANES. LONDON, January 20. The French Air Department has carried out successful experiments in wireless control of pilotless aeroplanes. The inventor, an engineer named Dubourg, claims that it is possible to control a giant aeroplane while it is flying several hundreds of miles over enemy towns and dropping bombs. The wireless station controlling the flight would he able to see hy television the ground over which i he machine was flying, thus enabling bombs to be dropped accurately.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 30, 5 February 1925, Page 5
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