The Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane was a project undertaken during World War I to develop a flying bomb, or pilotless aircraft capable of carrying explosives...

Sperry Corporation was a major American equipment and electronics company whose existence spanned more than seven decades of the 20th century. Sperry...

1916, Sperry joined Peter Hewitt to develop the Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane, one of the first successful precursors of the UAV. In 1917, Sperry solved...

in the Navy) was undertaken by Elmer Sperry for the US Navy in 1916, called the Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane, and was based on a Curtiss N-9 seaplane...

joined Elmer Sperry to develop the Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane, one of the first successful precursors of the cruise missile. Hewitt's first wife was...

Lawrence Sperry built and patented an "aerial torpedo", the Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane, a small biplane carrying a TNT charge, a Sperry autopilot...

Kettering Bug by Charles Kettering from Dayton, Ohio and the Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane – initially meant as an uncrewed plane that would carry an...

Reichenberg – The piloted version of the V-1 Fritz X Henschel Hs 293 Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane Kettering "Bug" Aerial Torpedo List of German guided weapons...

Cape Spencer, AK". Retrieved February 10, 2022. Ranter, Harro. "Incident airplane F-...., 04 Aug 1949". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved February 22, 2023...

Remotely Piloted Vehicle’. Soon after, on September 12, the Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane, otherwise known as the "flying bomb" made its first flight...

explosive British unmanned aerial vehicles of World War I Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane RAE Larynx Siemens torpedo glider V-1 flying bomb Cornelisse...

2-bladed Performance Maximum speed: 200 mph (320 km/h, 170 kn) Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane Kettering Bug V-1 flying bomb Werrell, Kenneth P. (September...

Olympics Peter Cooper Hewitt (1906), engineer who invented the first Mercury-vapor lamp in 1901, the Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane, and the Mercury-arc...

forces used unmanned balloons to drop bombs on the city. The Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane, which first flew in 1917, was a US-developed flying bomb....

Machine Gyrodyne QH-50 DASH or Drone Anti-Submarine Helicopter Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane, weapon (1917) Honeywell RQ-16 T-Hawk, reconnaissance (2006)...

5 Albatros D.III September 9 - Bristol F.2A September 12 - Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane October 25 - Bristol F.2B Fighter Nieuport 15 November 21 -...

The first pilotless drone, the Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane developed by Elmer Ambrose Sperry and Peter Cooper Hewitt, is test-flown in Long Island...

several N-9s were provided to the Sperry Gyroscope Company for conversion to the Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane configuration, flight testing the new...

"in the future all production models of bombardment airplanes be equipped with the A-5 Automatic Pilot and have provisions permitting the installation...

drone, the Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane, was developed and test-flown by aviation engineers Elmer Ambrose Sperry and Peter Cooper Hewitt, in Long Island...

the Proportion of Carbonic Acid Gas in the Flow of Furnace Gases" "Elmer Sperry Dies. Famous Inventor". The New York Times. June 17, 1930. Retrieved 2012-12-21...

autopilot. The first aircraft autopilot was invented by Lawrence Sperry in 1912. Sperry demonstrated it in 1914, and proved the credibility of the invention...

original on July 25, 2008. Retrieved January 4, 2020. "NIHF Inductee Elmer Sperry Invented the Gyroscopic Compass". www.invent.org. June 4, 2024. Archived...