PILOTED BY RADIO
SQUADRON OF PLANES
LONG-DISTANCE FLIGHT
(Received April 5, 11 a.m.) LONDON, April 4.
An entire squadron of Vickers Napier night bombers, equipped with robot electrical pilots, recently engaged in a series of long-distance flights from the south of England to Scotland, with automatic pilots, actuated by radio from the ground, in complete charge of the machines, which were brought safely to a predetermined desination without human pilots once touching the controls
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17227, 5 April 1930, Page 5
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74PILOTED BY RADIO Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17227, 5 April 1930, Page 5
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