Originally Posted by
FLAPHappy
Pamster: On the first page of this thread was the link to the news article, the first post. In paragraph 6&7 it quotes "Drone".
I know. I have read the article as well as this entire thread, and that was a drone. The powered glider that I taught myself how to fly with back in the 80s was a model airplane, not a drone. I was just refering to the few people who have posted on this and other related threads who are model airplane pilots and consider our model airplanes to be in fact drones.
If you look up the definition of drone you certainly would be correct in that any remotely piloted vehicle is considered a drone according to those resources. I just disagree with that definition.
There was no such think as wikipedia back when I learned how to fly and a drone was something that was launched from a aircraft carrier for target practice and meant little else.