To read The History of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Part 1: WWI, click here. Post-WWI: Target and Assault Drones Interwar Years After World War I, the aviation industry advanced exponentially. These advancements (particularly within the air transport sector) hindered the testing and operation of unmanned systems. As post-war hostilities decreased, so did military interest in unmanned flight; [...]
It might seem reasonable to assume that aerial warfare didn’t begin until the 20th century—after all, that’s when the Wright Bros invented and flew the first successful airplane (The Wright Flyer). In a way, this is completely valid. However, technically speaking, the history of aerial warfare is an ancient one. Lowe in his balloon "Intrepid" on [...]
Ferdinand Adolph Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin With a name like that, you just know he was meant to do great things. We’ve talked about rigid airships before (remember the giant Airlander 10?) and how sometimes you need to look back when looking to the future. On this day (May 26) in 1909, the rigid [...]
