In the 1990s, the author oversaw development of two of the Pentagon's most advanced UAVs. As he looked at the history of unmanned planes, he noticed that each time a conflict broke out, well-intentioned American engineers would get to work on the latest unmanned concepts all but blind to the work of those who came before them. In this book, Newcome chronicles the long history of unmanned aircraft in hopes of ending the cycle of duplicative efforts. If this brief history can help prevent such reinventions of the wheel within unmanned aviation endeavors in the future, then it will have served its purpose, Newcome writes. Newcome traces the family tree of unmanned aircraft all the way back to their roots as aerial torpedoes, which were the equivalent of today's cruise missiles. He discusses the work of leading aerospace pioneers whose efforts in the area of unmanned aviation have largely been ignored by history. The book chronicles the use of unmanned aircraft in times and places where you might not expect them, such as during the Cold War, in Vietnam, and in Israel. Details on the overall trend in UAV design--for instance the recent transition from remotely-piloted planes to the quest for truly autonomous vehicles--is covered, as well as possible future breakthroughs in UAV development.
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Only book about general history of UAVs but does not cover all history,
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Although the book has a title which claims general history of UAVs, it mainly mentions UAVs of USA. It covers Israel and some Italian UAVS, but it does not cover ony of the UAVs of the USSR.
The book has a bibliography and it refers to the information sources in the text. So it has some flavour of academic style. It also has an index at the end. The book gives information about "what is an UAV and what is not". The performance figures for the UAVS of post WWI era is especially interesting. It also makes a survey of UAV sector at the time of writing (2004). The pictures and graphics included in the book could be improved, at least there could be a picture of every UAV mentioned in the text. The book is easy to read and certainly contains information valuable to the interested reader.
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Unmanned aviation had its beginnings with the models built and flown by Cayley, Stringfellow, Du Temple, and other aviation pioneers as precursors to their attempts at manned flight in the first half of the nineteenth century (see Chapter 7). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unmanned aviation, safety pilot onboard, assault drones, robotic aircraft, unmanned aircraft, target drones, aerial torpedo, flying season, unmanned flight, reconnaissance drone, autonomous navigation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Air Force, World War, Global Hawk, United States, General Atomics, Lightning Bug, Marine Corps, Long Island, New York, North Vietnam, Operation Option, Radioplane Company, Reginald Denny, Teledyne Ryan, Vietnam War, Admiral King, Elmer Sperry, Pearl Harbor, British Army, Lawrence Sperry, New Jersey, Sky Spy, Defense Department, Leading Systems, Mitchel Field New!
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Unmanned aviation had its beginnings with the models built and flown by Cayley, Stringfellow, Du Temple, and other aviation pioneers as precursors to their attempts at manned flight in the first half of the nineteenth century (see Chapter 7). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unmanned aviation, safety pilot onboard, assault drones, robotic aircraft, unmanned aircraft, target drones, aerial torpedo, flying season, unmanned flight, reconnaissance drone, autonomous navigation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Air Force, World War, Global Hawk, United States, General Atomics, Lightning Bug, Marine Corps, Long Island, New York, North Vietnam, Operation Option, Radioplane Company, Reginald Denny, Teledyne Ryan, Vietnam War, Admiral King, Elmer Sperry, Pearl Harbor, British Army, Lawrence Sperry, New Jersey, Sky Spy, Defense Department, Leading Systems, Mitchel Field New!
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- Lake Michigan And Other Poems by Jared Smith on page 68
- Nikola Tesla: His Inventions, Researches and Writings by Thomas Commerford Martin on page 12
- World Unmanned Aircraft by Kenneth Munson in Back Matter
- Introduction to Flight (McGraw-Hill Series in Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering) by John D. Anderson in Back Matter
- The Royal Air Force (The Armed Forces) by Andrew Langley on page 34
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