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60 photos and 1 illustration tagged targetdrone, from 2 members of Flickr Commons.

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Related tags

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• firebee
• drone
• aviation
• aircraft
• airplane
• militaryaviation
• navalaviation
• usnavy
• usn
• unitedstatesnavy
• rpv
• wrightaeronautical
• wright
• 19501989
• biplane
• ryan
• curtissmodel48fledgling
• curtissmodel48
• curtissfledgling
• curtissn2cfledgling
• curtissn2c
• n2cfledgling
• n2c
• curtissn2c2fledgling

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• SDASM Archives 60 photos & illustrations
• NASA on The Commons 1 photo / illustration

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Curtiss

from SDASM Archives

• Brian said:

  Who is shooting who

• SDASM Archives said:

  Brian I believe this is an early target drone, so BOOM!

• Brian said:

  SDASM Archives Thankyou

• Brian said:

  What would they have towed it with ?

• SDASM Archives said:

  Brian The N2C-2 were remotely controlled from other aircraft. They were used for target practice around 1939.

Bilstein_01093 Lockheed F-104A 56-0735 Edwards AFB

from SDASM Archives

• TVL1970 said:

  As per the Aviation Safety Network, this aircraft would be converted into a JQF-104A target drone and shot down during US Navy tests of the AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-air missile on June 17, 1965. See: aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=87042