Word: pilotless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scientists are also busy on defense. The Army has a smallish rocket called GAPA (Ground to Air Pilotless Aircraft) "believed capable of seeking out and destroying enemy weapons." Fired in salvos toward V2s picked up by radar, GAPA and its successors might "home" on them by magnetic attraction or heat radiation and destroy them high...
...plane controls are basically the same as those by which the Army flew two pilotless and crewless Flying Fortresses from Hawaii to California a fortnight ago. But a "mother" plane is not always needed. In short-range test work all the flying signals can be sent from a truck on an airfield...
...above was cut by fourscore planes, many of them pilotless, radio-controlled drones flown from Eniwetok or the carriers Shangri-La and Saidor. Worker planes kept these in their appointed rounds...
...have to be very bright to know that the planes of World War II are already obsolete, were busy promoting a grand-scale Air Engineering Development Center for studying and testing the air weapons of tomorrow. They talked Buck Rogers language. Some topics: supersonic aircraft-piloted and pilotless-planes and rockets powered by nuclear energy, space ships, space bases that would float above the atmosphere, where gravity's pull is weak as a kitten's. An old-line pilot might just as well hang up his goggles and retire...
Beyond television broadcasting, the new tube has fascinating possibilities. Some are military. Perched in the nose of a pilotless bomber, the tube could watch the terrain below, projecting what it sees on a screen in a guiding airplane many miles behind. By watching the screen, an operator who remains in faraway safety could steer the bomber cross-country by remote control...