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Old 06-22-2015, 09:54 AM
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Originally Posted by TimJ
The Lilly is a true Drone. You are not actually flying the aircraft. If the same tech was added to an Extra 260, I would call it a drone as well.

Drone - an unmanned aircraft or ship that can navigate autonomously, without human control or beyond line of sight.
So you make up your on definition? Drone per Merriam Webster.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drone

So model air planes are drones. It goes back to the military target drones which were radio controlled before most of us were born.