Originally Posted by
Maximilionalpha
I've got a question for everyone and then I'm off this thread, because it's run it's course...before the media started calling these aircraft drones, what were you calling them???
Rewind the tape way back and we had Maynard Hill with his .60 powered, fixed wing autonomous model fly across the Atlantic.
We also had the military working at it with their big, ugly Unassisted Autonomous Vehicles [I think that's what they called them, or something stupid like that].
We also had the Rutan Bros. involved with a solar powered autonomous plane for gathering weather data if I remember that deal correctly.
I'm not sure when the term Drone first came into popularity [at this forum], so I'm not much help..!!
but at the bottom of the page there is a forum search function where you can look through thread titles.
I DO think the term DRONE is a perfectly accurate and powerful descriptor for planes that are capable of flying into a stadium while I'm sitting outside in my car having a beer..