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2. MSgt Gary Pomeroy, Air Force News Service, “‘New World Vistas’ Study Focuses onAF’s Future,” Maxwell–Gunter Dispatch, 9 February 1996, 16.3. Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Armitage, Unmanned Aircraft (London: Brassey’s DefencePublishers, 1988), 34.4. Ibid., 35.5. Maj Gen I. B. Holley Jr., “Of Saber Charges, Escort Fighters, and Spacecraft: TheSearch <strong>for</strong> Doctrine,” Air University Review, September–October 1983), 2.6. Jay Luvaas, The Education of an Army: British Military Thought, 1815–1940 (Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 1964), 355.7. Lee B. Kennett, The First Air War, 1914–1918 (New York: Free Press, 1991), 27.8. Ibid.9. B. H. Liddell Hart, Foch: The Man of Orleans (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1931),47. Of significance is that General Foch, who later became supreme commander of the Allied<strong>for</strong>ces in France, was an astute observer of warfare and authored Principles, which wasused at the war colleges.10. “The RPV/Drones/Targets Market, 1975–1985,” marketing study (Greenwich,Conn.: DMS, Inc., 1975). One could argue that the first pioneers in aviation were also thefirst to develop UAVs via their earliest experiments. “First flights of the Montgolfiers’ balloonwere unmanned as were those of the Wright brothers’ Flyer.”11. Armitage, 1. Lorin proposed using gyroscopes, barometers, jet engines, and guidingradio signals from an accompanying piloted aircraft in his weapon design. OtherFrench inventors of similar designs were Victor de Karavodine and Georges Marconnet.12. Ibid.13. John W. R. Taylor and Kenneth Munson, eds., Jane’s Pocket Book of <strong>Remotely</strong> <strong>Piloted</strong><strong>Vehicles</strong>: Robot Aircraft Today (New York: Macmillan, 1977), 11. It was suggested thatProfessor Low is the “Father of the <strong>Remotely</strong> <strong>Piloted</strong> Vehicle.” Others bestow Kettering withthat title.14. Steven M. Shaker and Alan R. Wise, War Without Men: Robots on the Future Battlefield(Washington, D.C.: Pergamon-Brassey’s, 1988), 21.15. Ibid.16. Shaker and Wise, 24. Lawrence Sperry died in 1923 when he crashed an aircraftinto the English Channel. The airplane he was flying at the time was a subscale, one-seaterbiplane his company had designed. Named the M-1 Messinger, this aircraft was developedto test control mechanisms <strong>for</strong> aerial torpedoes.17. Jay Womack and Arthur Steczkowski, “Review of Past and Current Trials and Usesof Unmanned <strong>Vehicles</strong>, ” Report no. HSD-TR-87-011/United States (Air Force SystemsCommand, 1988), 2-1; Maj James E. Biltz et al., “The RPV: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow”(Maxwell Air Force Base [AFB], Ala.: Air University, 1974), 13–16; Shaker and Wise,22; and Armitage, 3. The Kettering Bug’s official name was the Liberty Eagle. The ArmyAir Corps initially ordered 75 copies, but only 20 were produced due to World War I comingto an end.18. Womack and Steczkowski, 2-2.19. Shaker and Wise, 24.20. Armitage, 6; and Shaker and Wise, 25.21. Ibid.22. Womack and Steczkowski, 2-4. The first president of Radioplane was WhitleyCollins. He became the president of Northrop after Radioplane merged with Northrop inthe 1950s.23. Shaker and Wise, 26.24. Womack and Steczkowski, 2-3.25. Armitage, 7.26. Ibid., 16–17.27. Ibid., 16.28. Ibid., 17.22

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