Sperry Aerial Torpedo (Replica)
Lawrence Sperry, the inventor of the autopilot and the bombsight, designed this unmanned aircraft, which was built by the Curtiss Company. Loaded with TNT, it would take off from a track and explode on impact; this odd aircraft can thus be said to be the ancestor of the cruise missile and unmanned armed drone. The original aircraft was built in 1918, just at the end of the Great War.
Sperry Aerial Torpedo (Replica)
Lawrence Sperry, the inventor of the autopilot and the bombsight, designed this unmanned aircraft, which was built by the Curtiss Company. Loaded with TNT, it would take off from a track and explode on impact; this odd aircraft can thus be said to be the ancestor of the cruise missile and unmanned armed drone. The original aircraft was built in 1918, just at the end of the Great War.