Ghost bomber story

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

Why was the crew abandon unbroken B-17 bomber during its mission? It is the big question because in the World War 2 was not the very good thing to get into the prisoner of the war camp. If those persons were some agents of German intelligence, they would try to land with that plane. So why they jumped off the plane? One answer to this mystery was that this B-17 has no crew at all onboard its mission.

Some people believe that those "ghost bombers" were actually the early drones, what flew in the reconnaissance missions. That time there were no computers for controlling this kind of planes, but there were two gyroscopes in the drones. Those systems were tested at least in 1950's, and then the creation the drones were begun.

First, the drone was pulled up from the runway by using the analogical remote -control, and then the system was locked using the same kind of system, what is used in the radio-explosives. Then the first gyroscope took the control of that plane. There was the clock inside the system, and when the time was full, the clock system switched another gyroscope or autopilot as the control, and those drones came back to the base.

Then the radio signal reactivated the radio-controller and the airplane was able to land safely. Those missions were documented by using cameras, what worked all the time, and these analogical systems were needed no attention during the flight. Those early drones were used as the missiles, by loading their body with dynamite, and then they were driven against the bunkers.

During the cold war, those drones tested as the real bombers, and the dropping the bombs were happened by LORAN navigation system, where the drone flew to the target where two LORAN navigation signals were crossed, and then the radio-control system started to bomb the target. This system was proven untrustable because the enemy could easily find out the radio-frequencies, and then begin the bombardment too early. In some tests, the bombers were equipped with TV-cameras and the control crew bombed the targets in Nevada desert.

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https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10159852956825058&id=850825057

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http://www.303rdbg.com/thunderbird/p-lonestar.html

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