ROBOT AEROPLANES

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21510, 27 June 1935, Page 11

ROBOT AEROPLANES

* AUTOMATIC FLIGHT IN BRITAIN MACHINES IN USE AS TARGETS LONDON, June 25. The Air Ministry reveals that Great Britain possesses the first entirely robot aeroplanes in the world. The Royal Air Force has a flight of wireless-controlled De Havilland machines, which resemble Moths, which were secretly equipped with the invention. The machines, without pilots, take off, attain 100 miles an hour, and rise 10,000 feet. They perform difficult manoeuvres, and land safely within a 10-mile radius of the operator. They can be catapulted from a ship and brought down on the water. At present they are being used as tax-gets.