The world's first fully remote control helicopter in flight

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The aircraft is shown flying at the Kaman Aircraft Corporation, Bloomfield, Connecticut. The ground control operator is seen in the right foreground. Since the rotary wing "Drone" is a one-of-a-kind research and development vehicle, all initials flights were made with a safety pilot aboard ready to take over control of the helicopter in case of emergency. The "Drone", being developed by Kaman under a program with the Office of Naval Research, has accumulated more than one hundred hours of remote control flight including take-offs, landings, backward, sideward, forward and hovering flight at varying altitudes, speeds and distances.

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