HISTORY-MAKING FLIGHT
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URmamied U S. Aircraft
SM0KE B0MB DROPPED
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Received Wednesday, 12.5 p.m. NEW YORK, Aug. 6, After the longest unmanned flight'in history; two United States Army B.17 drones have arrived at Muroc, in California, from Hawaii. A mother ship controlled each drone. The drones' flights were made at a speed of from 150 to 160 miles an hour at 6500 feet, and they took ahout 900 minutes. One drone dropped a smoke bomb near the Californian coast, involving the opening of the bomb ba,y doors, releasing the bomb and reclosing the doors -by remote control. The test was designed to prove the efficiency and practicability of guided missiles. The mother ship referred to is an aircraft which is manned by a crew, and which controls the drone or pilotless aircraft. The drone is controlled by the mother ship from the take-off to the_ landing by means of special radio equipment. It'is possible for more than one drone to be operated in this way. The system was used with apparent success during the atomic bomb tests at Bikini, when drones were flown through the atomic cloud above Bikini, several miles away from the contrQlling mother ships.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 August 1946, Page 5
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