Not only was the guy and ass, he was wrong too. "Drone" doesn't mean pilotless, it means remotely controlled. Hence, it's piloted, but the pilot just isn't in the plane. A pilotless drone (through extension of the definition) would be a UAV that is autonomous. So, the Predator would be a drone, and the Global Hawk would be a pilotless drone.
1. a male bee in a colony of social bees, whose sole function is to mate with the queen 2. Brit a person who lives off the work of others 3. a pilotless radio-controlled aircraft
I think the real problem is our definition of "pilotless". In this case, it means the absence of a pilot on the aircraft. So the man on the phone has a point, but we all know that it was a pointless phone call.
But you know what this means? All RC model aircrafts are drones too.
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Not only was the guy and ass, he was wrong too. "Drone" doesn't mean pilotless, it means remotely controlled. Hence, it's piloted, but the pilot just isn't in the plane. A pilotless drone (through extension of the definition) would be a UAV that is autonomous. So, the Predator would be a drone, and the Global Hawk would be a pilotless drone.
To: Cory @ Jan 27th 2007 4:46PM
Hmm... according to the Collins Dictionary you're half right and half wrong:
http://www.collins.co.uk/wordexchange/Sections/DicSrchRsult.aspx?word=drone
drone
1. a male bee in a colony of social bees, whose sole function is to mate with the queen
2. Brit a person who lives off the work of others
3. a pilotless radio-controlled aircraft
I think the real problem is our definition of "pilotless". In this case, it means the absence of a pilot on the aircraft. So the man on the phone has a point, but we all know that it was a pointless phone call.
But you know what this means? All RC model aircrafts are drones too.