How a plane learned to fly with no Pilot

A drone is a plane with nobody in the seat. That idea is old. In 1918, Charles Kettering built a flying bomb and left the chair empty. Most of those machines never came home. They died in fields. Then a small camera learned the way back. In 2013, it fit in a backpack. The rooftop became the airport.This episode of The Invention File covers: • 1918 — Charles Kettering’s Bug, the empty seat • 1860s — Thaddeus Lowe’s balloons over battlefields • 1930s — Reginald Denny’s radio planes • Global Hawk and the pilot hundreds of miles away • Abraham Karem’s Predator • 2013 — DJI Phantom and the backpack camera • Kids racing through warehouses • 2015 — drones as flying tractors • 2017 — Hurricane Harvey rescues • 2016 — Amazon and Wing delivering boxes • The White House lawn and the rules that followedThe Invention File breaks down the ideas that built the modern world.#Drones #UAV #HowDronesFly #STEM #TheInventionFile #viral BGM Credit Music: Vanguard by Scott Buckley https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/ License: Creative Commons — Attribution 4.0 International — CC BY 4.0 Free Download / Stream: https://links.al/JMJ Music promoted by Audio Library: https://links.al/youtube