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Questions for Discussion: Pilotless Flight: Timeline of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

  • Choose any two consecutive decades and describe the advances in UAV design that occurred during that time.
  • What design challenge do all of these vehicles have in common?
  • Why are the solutions to that common challenge so different?
  • Do you think the United States should devote resources to developing the next generation of pilotless flying machines? Explain your reasoning.