England has long boasted the so-called "Queen Bee" type of airplane which takes off, flies and lands without a soul aboard, being controlled by radio from the ground or by an accompanying plane. As yet it has no military importance because the system breaks down as soon as the "Queen Bee" gets out of sight of the operator. Last week the U. S. Army Air Corps announced in enigmatic but unusually enthusiastic language for that reticent group that it had gone the "Queen Bee'' one better. According to the Air Corps, an...
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