Comment by james sowell on March 25, 2012 at 10:31am

I think they started S.T.A.G. after that in the pacific I think they have one at pensacola nas navel musem

Moderator Comment by Gary Mortimer on March 25, 2012 at 11:57am

There was stuffing happening a while before this http://www.nationalaviation.org/sperry-sr-elmer/

Comment by Chivar Maximillan Pilones on March 25, 2012 at 12:22pm

ah thanks for the link so this is where they based the aphrodite project and anvil from doc sperry's experiments

Comment by Vincent Mees on March 25, 2012 at 1:18pm

I've been to the V3 bunker in France and there is a small monument for Kennedy.

Comment by Anish on March 26, 2012 at 4:05am

I beleive there has been quite a bit of work done by German folks in this space, from various books i have come across, not being a historian i couldnt validate any of this.

Comment by Rory Paul on March 26, 2012 at 3:46pm

Here is an interesting link to early target drones:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioplane_OQ-2

The company Radioplane was eventually sold to Northrop

Comment by james sowell on March 26, 2012 at 4:08pm

so marilyn monroe was building drones when she was discoverd ?

Comment by Rory Paul on March 26, 2012 at 4:57pm

That is like Megan Fox being a member of diydrones.com

Comment by T.D. Gonzales on March 26, 2012 at 9:55pm

Some people have said that one of the reasons the US was slow to adopt and even opposed to drones is the fact that Josepth Kennedy died during this program. 

The German's used boats with long control line tethers and a bunch of explosives as a ocean going guided missile.

There have been a lot of precursors to drones throughout history. Look up why General Atomics makes the predator... Oh and GE had drones back in the day as well.

   

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