Originally Posted by
init4fun
A Model Aircraft's only mission is the fun of seeing it in the air (candy drops and battle re enactments counting as fun , rather than mission) .
A Drone is not flown for fun , it's flown for the business of whatever mission is assigned to the flight , and is nothing but a tool to facilitate the mission's goal .
So by this definition as was pointed out by another person on another forum, giant scale glider aerotow tug pilots would be flying drones and not model aircraft since the sole purpose of the flight is to accomplish a task, e.g. launching a scale glider.