The Kettering Bug was an experimental unmanned aerial torpedo, a forerunner of present-day cruise missiles. It was capable of striking ground targets up to 75 miles (121 km) from its launch point, while traveling at speeds of 50 miles per hour (80 km/h).[1] A successful test flight was made in October, 1918. The Bug's costly design and operation inspired Dr. Henry W. Walden to create a rocket that would allow a pilot to control the rocket after launch with the use of radio waves.[2] The British radio controlled weapons of 1917 were secret at this time. These designs were forerunners of modern-day missiles.
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(64 km). Kettering's design, formally called the Kettering Aerial Torpedo but later known as the KetteringBug, was built by the Dayton-Wright Airplane Company...
The US Army also tried to develop a flying bomb in World War I, the KetteringBug, but the war ended before the program could mature. The functioning...
to build an "aerial torpedo", resulting in the KetteringBug which first flew in 1918. While the Bug's revolutionary technology was successful, it was...
These developments also inspired the construction of the KetteringBug by Charles Kettering from Dayton, Ohio and the Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane...
through radio signals. A year later in the United States, testing of KetteringBug, a 12-foot long biplane attached with a bomb and that launched via a...
maximum speed) into choppy waves of a rather heavy sea. GT-1 (missile) KetteringBug List of torpedoes by name Hughes, 2000, p. 162. Dictionary.com aerial...
VIII bomber as a carrier craft, but the Armistice stopped the project. KetteringBug Notes Branfill-Cook 2014, p. 133. Sollinger 2010, p. 1. Robinson 1979...
abandoned Rayak, Lebanon to join defense forces in Aleppo. The experimental KetteringBug aircraft, designed by the U.S. Army Signals Corps to carry unmanned...
Kettering Grammar School was a boys' grammar school (selective) that had a number of homes in Kettering, Northamptonshire throughout its history. The...
Sopwith Buffalo September 30 – U.S. Navy C-class blimp October 2 – KetteringBug Thomas-Morse MB-2 Westland Weasel November 11 – Felixstowe Fury, also...
1919, final testing of an experimental unmanned aircraft called the "KetteringBug", one of the earliest examples of a cruise missile, was successfully...
contains the county's largest towns: Northampton (249,093), Corby (75,571), Kettering (63,150), and Wellingborough (56,564).[citation needed] The northeast...
problems over the next two years. Linville died of pneumonia at Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City on April 10, 2000, after complications...
installed, new roof rack installed. Notes: Left-hand drive unit bought in Kettering, Northamptonshire from an importer. Mike uses soda blasting to strip the...
in the construction of Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and the Trump Tower. Salerno was also accused of illegally...
gradually prised the door out of its socket until at a point north of Kettering it became able to open. This condition was detected and an automatic brake...
Washington Medical Center, Gilda's Club New York City, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, The Humane Society of the United States, and Conservation International...
Later that afternoon, he again suffered cardiac arrest for 45 minutes at Kettering Medical Center and was pronounced dead after all efforts to resuscitate...
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