PILOTLESS AEROPLANES
Secret Machines of R.A.F. WONDERFUL, PERFORMANCES (Received 26, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 25. The Air Ministry reveals' that Britain possesses the first entirely robot aeroplanes in the world. Tho Air Force has a flight of secretly equipped ■wirelessly-controlled De Havillands resembling Moths. The machines, without pilots, take off, attain 100 miles an hour, rise 10,000 feet, perform difficult manoeuvres and land safely within a ten 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 targets.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 163, 26 June 1935, Page 5
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