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“Buzz-Bomb Blitz”
UAV (Drones) Inquiry Unit Living through a UAV attack. “Buzz-Bomb Blitz” includes comments from those who lived through the V-1 bombings. Visit Source Download PDF…
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“Denny’s Radio Model Tested”
UAV (Drones) Inquiry Unit In the late 1930s, the Radioplane Company developed a series of radio controlled model airplanes as aerial targets for antiaircraft gunnery training by the Army Air Corps.…
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Early Flying Robots: From Models to Target UAVs
UAV (Drones) Inquiry Unit Los Angeles Times. January 28, 1938, morning edition. Before the U.S. entered World War II, research had begun on remote, radio-controlled airplanes. At first a result …
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German World War I Observation Balloon
UAV (Drones) Inquiry Unit The United States was not the only nation to employ aerial balloons for reconnaissance. Even after airplanes were in use during World War I, all participating nations used…
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Medieval Catapult illustrated in the Jami’ al-Tawarikh (World History or Compendium of Chronicles) by Rashid al-Din (d. 1318)
The predecessors to the UAVs of our time were a variety of catapults used since antiquity to attack enemies from a long distance by sending projectiles through the air. We know this from the visual an…
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Thaddeus Lowe’s Balloon, “Intrepid” used to observe the Battle of Fair Oaks during the early U.S. Civil War
UAV (Drones) Inquiry Unit Manned aerial balloons were used for gathering intelligence before the modern development of unpiloted reconnaissance aircraft. In these photos, taken by Matthew Brady on …
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Japanese Balloon Bombs
Made of paper or rubberized silk, the Japanese Balloon Bombs, carried anti-personnel and incendiary bombs. Visit Source 1 Visit Source 2 Download PDF …
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Winston Churchill During the Second World War
The Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill, with Captain The Right Honourable David Margesson, Secretary of State for War, watching preparations being made in an unspecified UK location for the launch …
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21st Century UAV Perspective by an Industry Leader
SpeedNews 8th Annual Aerospace & Defense Industry Suppliers Conference— Extending the Value of Unmanned Aerial Systems into Civil Air Space Bruce Gerding, of Northrop Grumman, addresses Aeros…
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