Unknown Kettering Aerial Torpedo -
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Aircraft: Kettering - Aerial Torpedo
Airport: USA - Ohio - Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB (DWF)
Category: Main database
Photo taken on 2007-8-21 by steve doktor [Contact]
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(30.7.2009, 01:21 CET)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a full size model on display at National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio
The Kettering Bug was an aerial torpedo, the forerunner of what today is considered a UAV or a cruise missile. It was capable of striking ground targets up to 75 miles (120 km) from its launch point.
During World War I, the United States Army aircraft board asked Charles Kettering of Dayton, Ohio to design an unmanned "flying bomb" which could hit a target at a range of 50 miles (80 km). Kettering's design, formally called the Kettering Aerial Torpedo but later known as the Kettering Bug, was built by the Dayton-Wright Airplane Company. Orville Wright acted as an aeronautical consultant on the project, while Elmer Ambrose Sperry designed the control and guidance system. A piloted development aircraft was built as the Dayton-Wright Bug.
TECHNICAL NOTES:
Armament: 180 lbs. of high explosive
Engine: One De Palma 4-cylinder of 40 hp
Maximum speed: 120 mph
Range: 75 miles
Span: 14 ft. 11 1/2 in.
Length: 12 ft. 6 in.
Height: 4 ft. 8 in.
Weight: 530 lbs. loaded
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